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But
the
resources
of
Clyde
,
in
such
a
situation
as
this
,
were
slim
.
For
,
apart
from
Liggett
,
Whiggam
,
and
a
few
minor
though
decidedly
pleasant
and
yet
rather
remote
department
heads
,
all
of
whom
were
now
looking
on
him
as
a
distinctly
superior
person
who
could
scarcely
be
approached
too
familiarly
in
connection
with
anything
,
there
was
no
one
to
whom
he
could
appeal
.
In
so
far
as
the
social
group
to
which
he
was
now
so
eagerly
attaching
himself
was
concerned
,
it
would
have
been
absurd
for
him
to
attempt
,
however
slyly
,
to
extract
any
information
there
.
For
while
the
youths
of
this
world
at
least
were
dashing
here
and
there
,
and
because
of
their
looks
,
taste
and
means
indulging
themselves
in
phases
of
libertinism
--
the
proper
wild
oats
of
youth
--
such
as
he
and
others
like
himself
could
not
have
dreamed
of
affording
,
still
so
far
was
he
from
any
real
intimacy
with
any
of
these
that
he
would
not
have
dreamed
of
approaching
them
for
helpful
information
.
His
sanest
thought
,
which
occurred
to
him
almost
immediately
after
leaving
Roberta
,
was
that
instead
of
inquiring
of
any
druggist
or
doctor
or
person
in
Lycurgus
--
more
particularly
any
doctor
,
since
the
entire
medical
profession
here
,
as
elsewhere
,
appeared
to
him
as
remote
,
cold
,
unsympathetic
and
likely
very
expensive
and
unfriendly
to
such
an
immoral
adventure
as
this
--
was
to
go
to
some
near-by
city
,
preferably
Schenectady
,
since
it
was
larger
and
as
near
as
any
,
and
there
inquire
what
,
if
anything
,
could
be
obtained
to
help
in
such
a
situation
as
this
.
For
he
must
find
something
.
At
the
same
time
,
the
necessity
for
decision
and
prompt
action
was
so
great
that
even
on
his
way
to
the
Starks
'
,
and
without
knowing
any
drug
or
prescription
to
ask
for
,
he
resolved
to
go
to
Schenectady
the
next
night
.
Only
that
meant
,
as
he
later
reasoned
,
that
a
whole
day
must
elapse
before
anything
could
be
done
for
Roberta
,
and
that
,
in
her
eyes
,
as
well
as
his
own
,
would
be
leaving
her
open
to
the
danger
that
any
delay
at
all
involved
.
Therefore
,
he
decided
to
act
at
once
,
if
he
could
;
excuse
himself
to
the
Starks
and
then
make
the
trip
to
Schenectady
on
the
interurban
before
the
drug-stores
over
there
should
close
.
But
once
there
--
what
?
How
face
the
local
druggist
or
clerk
--
and
ask
for
what
?
His
mind
was
troubled
with
hard
,
abrasive
thoughts
as
to
what
the
druggist
might
think
,
look
or
say
.
If
only
Ratterer
or
Hegglund
were
here
!
They
would
know
,
of
course
,
and
be
glad
to
help
him
.
Or
Higby
,
even
.
But
here
he
was
now
,
all
alone
,
for
Roberta
knew
nothing
at
all
.
There
must
be
something
though
,
of
course
.
If
not
,
if
he
failed
there
,
he
would
return
and
write
Ratterer
in
Chicago
,
only
in
order
to
keep
himself
out
of
this
as
much
as
possible
he
would
say
that
he
was
writing
for
a
friend
.
Once
in
Schenectady
,
since
no
one
knew
him
there
,
of
course
he
might
say
(
the
thought
came
to
him
as
an
inspiration
)
that
he
was
a
newly
married
man
--
why
not
?
He
was
old
enough
to
be
one
,
and
that
his
wife
,
and
that
in
the
face
of
inability
to
care
for
a
child
now
,
was
"
past
her
time
"
(
he
recalled
a
phrase
that
he
had
once
heard
Higby
use
)
,
and
that
he
wanted
something
that
would
permit
her
to
escape
from
that
state
.
What
was
so
wrong
with
that
as
an
idea
?
A
young
married
couple
might
be
in
just
such
a
predicament
.
And
possibly
the
druggist
would
,
or
should
be
stirred
to
a
little
sympathy
by
such
a
state
and
might
be
glad
to
tell
him
of
something
.
Why
not
?
That
would
be
no
real
crime
.
To
be
sure
,
one
and
another
might
refuse
,
but
a
third
might
not
.
And
then
he
would
be
rid
of
this
.
And
then
never
again
,
without
knowing
a
lot
more
than
he
did
now
,
would
he
let
himself
drift
into
any
such
predicament
as
this
.
Never
!
It
was
too
dreadful
.
He
betook
himself
to
the
Stark
house
very
nervous
and
growing
more
so
every
moment
.
So
much
so
that
,
the
dinner
being
eaten
,
he
finally
declared
as
early
as
nine-thirty
that
at
the
last
moment
at
the
factory
a
very
troublesome
report
,
covering
a
whole
month
's
activities
,
had
been
requested
of
him
.
And
since
it
was
not
anything
he
could
do
at
the
office
,
he
was
compelled
to
return
to
his
room
and
make
it
out
there
--
a
bit
of
energetic
and
ambitious
commercialism
,
as
the
Starks
saw
it
,
worthy
of
their
admiration
and
sympathy
.
And
in
consequence
he
was
excused
.
But
arrived
at
Schenectady
,
he
had
barely
time
to
look
around
a
little
before
the
last
car
for
Lycurgus
should
be
leaving
.
His
nerve
began
to
fail
him
.
Did
he
look
enough
like
a
young
married
man
to
convince
any
one
that
he
was
one
?
Besides
were
not
such
preventatives
considered
very
wrong
--
even
by
druggists
?
Walking
up
and
down
the
one
very
long
Main
Street
still
brightly
lighted
at
this
hour
,
looking
now
in
one
drug-store
window
and
another
,
he
decided
for
different
reasons
that
each
particular
one
was
not
the
one
.
In
one
,
as
he
saw
at
a
glance
,
stood
a
stout
,
sober
,
smooth-shaven
man
of
fifty
whose
bespectacled
eyes
and
iron
gray
hair
seemed
to
indicate
to
Clyde
's
mind
that
he
would
be
most
certain
to
deny
such
a
youthful
applicant
as
himself
--
refuse
to
believe
that
he
was
married
--
or
to
admit
that
he
had
any
such
remedy
,
and
suspect
him
of
illicit
relations
with
some
young
,
unmarried
girl
into
the
bargain
.
He
looked
so
sober
,
God-fearing
,
ultra-respectable
and
conventional
.
No
,
it
would
not
do
to
apply
to
him
.
He
had
not
the
courage
to
enter
and
face
such
a
person
.
In
another
drug-store
he
observed
a
small
,
shriveled
and
yet
dapper
and
shrewd-looking
man
of
perhaps
thirty-five
,
who
appeared
to
him
at
the
time
as
satisfactory
enough
,
only
,
as
he
could
see
from
the
front
,
he
was
being
briskly
assisted
by
a
young
woman
of
not
more
than
twenty
or
twenty-five
.
And
assuming
that
she
would
approach
him
instead
of
the
man
--
an
embarrassing
and
impossible
situation
--
or
if
the
man
waited
on
him
,
was
it
not
probable
that
she
would
hear
?
In
consequence
he
gave
up
that
place
,
and
a
third
,
a
fourth
,
and
a
fifth
,
for
varying
and
yet
equally
cogent
reasons
--
customers
inside
,
a
girl
and
a
boy
at
a
soda
fountain
in
front
,
an
owner
posed
near
the
door
and
surveying
Clyde
as
he
looked
in
and
thus
disconcerting
him
before
he
had
time
to
consider
whether
he
should
enter
or
not
.
Finally
,
however
,
after
having
abandoned
so
many
,
he
decided
that
he
must
act
or
return
defeated
,
his
time
and
carfare
wasted
.
Returning
to
one
of
the
lesser
stores
in
a
side
street
,
in
which
a
moment
before
he
had
observed
an
undersized
chemist
idling
about
,
he
entered
,
and
summoning
all
the
bravado
he
could
muster
,
began
:
"
I
want
to
know
something
.
I
want
to
know
if
you
know
of
anything
--
well
,
you
see
,
it
's
this
way
--
I
'm
just
married
and
my
wife
is
past
her
time
and
I
ca
n't
afford
to
have
any
children
now
if
I
can
help
it
.
Is
there
anything
a
person
can
get
that
will
get
her
out
of
it
?
"
