Part 4
KEEPING HIS PROMISE
It was eleven o'clock at night, and young Marriott was locked
into his room, cramming as hard as he could cram. He was a "Fourth
Year Man" at Edinburgh University and he had been ploughed for this
particular examination so often that his parents had positively
declared they could no longer supply the funds to keep him
there.
His rooms were cheap and dingy, but it was the lecture fees that
took the money. So Marriott pulled himself together at last and
definitely made up his mind that he would pass or die in the
attempt, and for some weeks now he had been reading as hard as
mortal man can read. He was trying to make up for lost time and
money in a way that showed conclusively he did not understand the
value of either. For no ordinary man—and Marriott
