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The Canadían noveiist Morley Callaghan was born in Toronto in 1903. He was educated at the University of Toronto and at a law school. Between college and law school he was first a reporter and then ran a circulating líbrary. From 1926 he began to write seriously, and in 1929 he saw his first stories published. The following principa! works of the wriíer brought him to the attention of the reading publie: A Native Argosy (short stories), 1929; No Man's Meat (novelettes), 1931; Such Is My Beloved, 1934; They Shall Interest the Eartfi, 1935; Now That ApriVs Here and Other Stories, 1936; More Joy in fíeaven, 1937. Morley Callaghan has the distinction of having had stories of his published in annual anthologies of The Best Short Stories. The Cheat's Remorse is a realistic psychological story about two unemployed people who in spite of their great distress summon up enough self-respect and understanding to make the right choice between honesty and deception. THE CHEAT'S REMORSE Phil was sipping a cup of coffee in Stewart's one night, sitting at the table near the radiator so the snow would melt off his shoes and dry, when he saw a prosperous-looking, hairy, blue-jowled man at the next table pushing a corned-beef sandwich on rye bread away from him slowly as if the sight of it made him sick. By the way the man sighed as he concentrated on the untouched sandwich anyone could see he was pretty drunk. He was clutching his food check firmly in his left hand as he used the other to tug and fumble at a roll of bilis in his pocket. He was trying to get hold of himself, he was trying to get ready to walk up to the cashier in a straight line without stumbling, pay his check with dignity, and get into a taxi and home before he feli asleep. The roll of bilis that hung in the man's hand undernearth the table as he leaned his weight forward star-^ ing at the cashier started Phil thinking how mucii he needed a dollár. He had been across the country and back on a bus, he was broke, his shirts were in a hand laundry on Twenty-sixth Street, and a man he had phoned yesterday, a man he had gone to school with, and who worked in a publiser's office now, had told him