Adrift in New York: Tom and Florence Braving the World

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retreating form of his co

ould return my love-for I do love her, cold as she is-I should be happy. Can there be a rival? But no! we live so quietly that she has met no one who could win her affection. Why can she

he arose from his seat, and

other a beggar! While the last is in existence I am not safe. The boy may be alive, and liable to t

absorbed in his work that he did not notice the entrance of a dark-browed, broad-shouldered man, dres

, Curtis turned sharply around, an

grily. "And how dare you enter

asked the intruder, wit

es

n this

sent. It is

ary-pardon my cu

t business is

ee a gentleman picking a lock. You sho

for this rough-looking man had become possessed of a dangerous secret. "I am my uncl

o to him f

uld I apologize or give any explanation

you suspect," said

perhaps, that I a

too sure

ho you are nor what you mean, but let me inform you that your presence

ve it when

, and advanced to his visi

ed, angrily, "or I will

window?" returned the stra

ut if you don't leave at

ted himself in a luxurious easy-chair, and, l

o, you

rtis, with a feeling of uneasines

e, I should seek an interview

ha

ives; and that I can

; he staggered as if he had been s

is a

ou mind my smoking?" and he coolly produced

s, scanning the man's feat

forgotten

Bolton?" fa

don't seem g

ght you

years since. Then I got homesi

een here th

ton. "You didn't su

d Curtis, in

wery. There's my card. Cal

d into the grate, but on second t

oy?" he as

n starved. Though I dare say you

actually in

st

ything of-you kn

man, and heir to the property which you look u

he doing? Is

sells papers in the evenings, and

any ed

Tim. "He don't know no Greek, or Latin, or mathematics-phew, that's

or hear from him again. What made

sick, I did. There ain't but one Bowery i

u money to keep

he kid's cost me more than that. I've had the care of him f

ur promise to me!"

than breaking your pro

came over his face, and he stared ope

tall figure of his uncle standing on the threshold of the left portal, clad