4/33 They are among our first people," returned the girl. "I'm a stranger here; and if I can't find Mrs.Bray, I don't see what I am to do. A lady from here who was staying at the hotel gave me at letter to Mrs.Bray.I was living at the hotel, but I didn't like it; it was too public. I told the lady that I wanted to learn a trade or get into a store, and she said the city was just the place for me, and that she would give me a letter to a particular friend, who would, on her recommendation, interest he self for me. It's somewhere along here that she lived, I'm sure;" and she took a letter from her pocket and examined the direction. |