tie. I have

only two hundred francs left. Would that do you any good ? "

I was thinking that these two hundred francs which he offered meant to him a whole month's subsistence. I answered with a bleeding heart:

" Well, all right ! All the same ! I'll give them back to you tomorrow. . . tomorrow morning."

" That is all right ! "

At that moment I would have wished to throw myself on Lirat's neck, to beg his pardon, to shout : " No, no I don't want this money ! " And like a thief I took it away with me.