CHAPTER XXI. RUPERT BECOMES A CONFIDANT.
Some three months later Rupert's attention was called to a boy of seventeen or thereabouts, with long black hair and a high forehead, who registered as a guest, and took one of the cheapest rooms in the hotel. The boy seemed to have no companion, and to know very little about the city.
"Can you direct me to Palmer's Theatre?" he asked, rather diffidently.
"It is on Broadway, corner of Thirtieth Street," answered Rupert.
"And Daly's?"
"That is nearly opposite, on the other side of Broadway."
The boy took out a memorandum-book and noted down these addresses.
"What can he want at those theatres?" thought Rupert.