“Anything would be a better expression. As your tutor I feel it incumbent upon me to correct your grammar.”
“I wish you would, Mr. Leslie. What do you mean to do when you get to San Francisco?”
“I shall seek employment on one of the San Farncisco daily papers. Six months or a year so spent will restore my health, and enable me to live without drawing upon my moderate savings.”
“I expect I shall have to work, too, to get money to take me back to New York.”
And now we must ask the reader to imagine four months and one week passed.
There had been favorable weather on the whole, and the voyage was unusually short.
Dodger and the reporter stood on deck, and with eager interest watched the passage through the Golden Gate. A little later and the queen city of the Pacific came in sight, crowning the hill on which a part of the city is built, with the vast Palace Hotel a conspicuous object in the foreground.
Chapter XXIV.
Florence In Suspense.
We must now return to New York to Dodger’s old home.
When he did not return at the usual hour, neither Florence nor Mrs. O’Keefe was particularly disturbed.