Chapter 7
"The Angel"The winds of adversity were tempered by the welcome extended me
by my old comrade and his wife. There was no concealment as to my
financial condition, but when I explained the causes my former
crony laughed at me until the tears stood in his eyes. Nor did I
protest, because I so richly deserved it. Fortunately the
circumstances of my friends had bettered since my previous visit,
and I was accordingly relieved from any feeling of intrusion. In
two short years the wheel had gone round, and I was walking heavily
on my uppers and continually felt like a pauper or poor relation.
To make matters more embarrassing, I could appeal to no one, and,
fortified by pride from birth, I ground my teeth over resolutions
that will last me till death. Any one of half a dozen
