“What’s that?”
“I would like to get some sort of an education. I don’t know much.”
“Can’t you read?”
“A little, and write a little. I mostly picked it up myself.”
The young man whistled.
Have you any place to sleep to-night?”
“I’ve hired an attic room for a week.”
“What do you pay?”
“A dollar a week.”
“Of course it is a poor room?”