At last, after several blocks of walking, she felt that this would not do, and began to look about again though without relaxing her pace.

A little way on she saw a great door which, for some reason, attracted her attention.

It was ornamented by a small brass sign, and seemed to be the entrance to a vast hive of six or seven floors.

"Perhaps," she though, "they may went some one," and crossed over to enter.

When she came within a score of feet of the desired goal, she saw through the window a young man in a gray checked suit.