CHAPTER V.


A YOUNG FINANCIAL WRECK.


"You have been very fortunate in recovering your jewels," said the
agent.

"I owe it to you," replied Rodney gratefully.

"Well, perhaps so. If I have rendered you a service I am very glad."

"And I am very glad to have found so good a friend. I hope you will let
me pay for your ticket to New York."

"It won't be necessary. The interruption of our journey won't invalidate
the ticket we have."

An hour later they reached New York.

"What are your plans, Rodney?" asked Adin Woods, who by this time had
become quite intimate with his young companion.

"I shall call on my guardian, and perhaps he may give me some advice as
to what I do. Where would you advise me to go--to a hotel?"

"No; it will be too expensive. I know of a plain boarding house on West