“An excellent determination. How do you happen to be traveling?”
“Oh, I’m goin’ out West.”
“What made you think of that?”
“Mr. O’Connor—he’s the superintendent of the Newsboys’ Lodging House—was goin’ to take some boys out, and get ’em places; and he offered to take me.”
“Are all these boys I see in the car going out too?”
“Yes, sir, all of ’em, and there’s some more in the car behind.”
“Where in the West do you expect to go?”
“I don’t know,” said Julius. “Is the West a big place?”
“I should say it was,” said the other, with a laugh. “It’s a very large place.”{36}
“Were you ever there?” asked Julius, desiring to hear something about his place of destination.