The question came from a bench just behind Jerry. Looking around, he saw sitting there the gentleman he had run into while trying to find Wakefield Smith.
“I didn’t make out at all, sir.”
“Couldn’t find him, eh?”
“No, sir.”
“Those pickpockets are slick chaps, and no mistake,” went on the gentleman.
“Did you lose much?”
“All I had—nearly thirty dollars.”
“Phew! that is too bad. Well, I wouldn’t sit down to mope about it. You might as well get to work and earn the amount over again.”
“The trouble is, I can’t find any work,” answered the boy, earnestly. “I would work fast enough if I could only find it to do.”
“You are out of a situation?”