Adrift in New York: Tom and Florence Braving the World

New

said Dodger, "that I don't

Dodger?" said Ben

m going to set

e, "I'm afraid you will ge

I'm old enough to take care of myself,

may be

to get hold

evidently well filled up by a miscellaneous crowd of tenants; shop

eart sank within her as she followed Mrs. O'Keefe through a

'Keefe, encouragingly. "I've got four rooms upsta

derstand at what cost she had secured h

ght, clean and luxuriously furnished. Here-- But

eet square, furnished in the plainest manner, uncarpeted, exce

teen inches, placed above it, a pine bureau, a coup

asked Mrs. O'Keefe, complacently. "All nice

lorence, faintly, sacrifi

used to live here?"

e I don'

with me three months, and she furnished the room herself. When she went away she was hard

I seen h

ht to have saved money, but she had a good-for-not

said Florence, who shuddered at the

to take in her place, but I see you're a real leddy, let alone that Dodger recommends you. I hope you'll like the room, and I'll do all I can t

ltered Florence. "I am afraid I

quiet and gentale than goin' to the eatin'-h

just at first you wouldn't object to taking me as a boarder, and letting me take

t, and I'll be glad of your company

t," said Florence, feel

d, what kind of work

shall have to do something, for I haven't got much

the paper

n for some aut

a good livin' all the same by my apple-stand. I tell you, my dear," she continued in a confidential tone, "there is a good dale of p

ok her head,

id I haven't a business turn, and I shou

ere's nothin' dull about my business, unless it rai

looking at like you, Mrs. O

said the apple-woman, good-naturedly

you to look at, Mrs. O'Keefe. Yo

weigh a hundred and ninety-five. But I can't be b

r earn my living some o

ast year who used to sew for a livin'. Early and late she wor

tartled, for she knew very little of th

use to take her in something from my own table, a plate of meat, or a bit of toast and a cup of tay, makin' belave she didn't get a

with the corner of her apron, as she thought

O'Keefe," said Dodger. "It'll take

joke, Miss Florence, but he's a good bye for all that, and I'm g

u know you'd marry Tim

he had the impudence to ask me. When Maggie O'Keefe

'Keefe. Tim is just the man to

dger, but he proved true to his

got to work, or I can't pay room

ng to do, Dodger?

so I shall go 'round to the piers and see

one would want to do that

Broadway. Last week an old man paid me a dollar to show him the way to the Cooper Institute. He was a gent

itty; she's a wild slip of a girl, and just as like as not I'll find a d

n a while," said Floren

and a feeling of loneliness

make up to her for her uncle's love, so stra