"Yes," said Rose, "I should like it ever so much; but where would you be?" she asked, doubtfully.
"I'll go to the Newsboys' Lodging House to sleep, but I'll come every afternoon and evening to see you. I'll give Miss Manning so much a week for your share of the expenses, and then I'll feel easy about you. But wouldn't she be a trouble to you, Miss Manning?"
"A trouble," repeated the seamstress. "You don't know how much I shall enjoy her company. I get so lonely sometimes. If you'll come with me now, I'll show you my room, and Rose shall find a home at once."
Much relieved in mind, Rough and Ready, with his sister still clinging to his arm, followed the seamstress down Franklin Street towards her home near the river.
CHAPTER V.
A NEW HOME.
Miss Manning paused before a house, not indeed very stylish, but considerably more attractive than the tenement house in Leonard Street.
"This is where I live," she said.
"Is it a tenement house?" asked the newsboy.
"No, there's a woman keeps it,—a Mrs. Nelson. Some of the rooms are occupied by boarders, but others only by lodgers. I can't afford to pay the board she asks; so I only hire a room, and board my self."
While she was speaking, the two children were following her upstairs.