I think we shall be able to find him.

Let us go and try." Hester and I set out at once, walking rapidly against a biting east wind toward the river.

On reaching Second Avenue we took a car and rode down among the big tenements towering into the sky on all sides in the lower part of the city.

Alighting in the midst of these human hives, we made our way through a wretched crowd, shivering in the livery of destitution, down a long and narrow alley.

Entering one of the doorways we climbed a steep flight of stairs, above which was a squalid throng pressing about an open door on the landing.