"If I ever come to the Lodge, I'll ask for you," he said.

"Where do you live now?"

"I'm just staying at a place on Fourteenth Street, but I can't afford to
stay there long, for they charge a dollar a day."

"Geewholliker, that would bust me, and make me a financial wreck as the
papers say."

"How did you lose your fortune and get reduced to blacking boots?" asked
Rodney jocosely.

"I got scooped out of it in Wall Street," answered Mike. "Jay Gould
cleaned me out."

"And I suppose now he has added your fortune to his."

"You've hit it boss."

"Well, good day, Mike, I'll see you again some day----"

"All right! I'm in my office all de mornin'."



CHAPTER VI.