Archie again gave vent to a little laugh of embarrassment, and confused relief. He did not enter into the reasoning. Debts of honour, or debts of any kind, were unknown to him. It had driven him almost distracted to think how he was to pay for the two little puppies from Rankin--the doggies which he always thought of with a little bitterness, who had abandoned him and gone over to the enemy. No more than Eddy could have understood that difficulty, could Archie understand how it might be supposed he was securing himself against loss by astutely giving the character of a debt of honour to the money he was bestowing upon his fellow-creature who was in need. He said simply, “We will consider this as settled, then; and we’ll run up to Glasgow to-morrow. I can show you the place: it is not like London, perhaps; but there’s things in it you couldn’t see in London. There’s a boat about ten o’clock.” “Oh, I say! that means getting up in the middle of the night.” “Well, there’s one at twelve. We’ll get there before the bank shuts. You’ll not be able to see so much of the town.” “I can live without that,” said Eddy. “Well, Glasgow’s a very fine place,” said Archie gravely, not wishing to permit any disparagement of his native town: and then he rose from the table. He had already unconsciously pulled the newspaper half away, and as he rose up his movement displayed it altogether, and he could not help seeing, notwithstanding Eddy’s eager half-movement to cover it again, the cheque lying opened out upon the blotting-book underneath. He said hastily, “You were just going to send it away----” “Yes,” said Eddy, his heart beating, not understanding the question, but seizing at it as he would have done at any means of escape. “Then I just came in time,” said Archie, with a pleased smile. Eddy took up the cheque, with a feeling of despair clutching at his heart. “You had better have it back,” he said. “You can bring it up with you,” said Archie; “nobody is likely to ripe your pockets and see what’s in them in the middle of the night.” With this enigmatical speech, which Eddy did not in the least understand, Rowland bade him a hurried good-night, and took himself away.