"Why don't you go to work?" said the gentleman.
"I can't get anything to do, sir. I've been trying for something all day."
The fact was that Mr. Martin had been lounging about a low bar-room all day.
"Here, take this, and clear the way."
The gentleman, more to get rid of him than anything else, dropped five cents into his hand, and passed on.
"He might have given a quarter," grumbled Martin; "it wouldn't have hurt him."
He looked up, intending to make a similar application to the next person, when he uttered an exclamation of surprise and exultation. Close before him he saw Rufus and his little sister, accompanied by Miss Manning.