[Felix O’Day by F. Hopkinson Smith]@TWC D-Link bookFelix O’Day CHAPTER III 10/26
And now about the room.
Can I see it? But, before you answer, let me tell you that I have only these twenty-five dollars on which I can lay my hands. Some of this I owe to my landlady.
The balance I am quite willing to turn over to you, and when it is all gone I will move somewhere else." He drew a silver watch from his pocket.
"You must decide at once; it is getting late and I must be moving on." Kitty squared herself, her hands on her hips--a favorite gesture when her mind was fully made up--looked straight at the speaker as if to reply, then suddenly catching sight of a strapping-looking fellow in blue overalls, a trunk on one shoulder, a carpetbag in his hand, called out: "John, dear, come here! I want ye.
Here, Mike! You and Bobby get that steamer baggage out on the sidewalk, and don't be slack about it, for it goes to Hoboken, and there may be a block in the river and the ferry-boats behind time.
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