CHAPTER XXIII.
A REVERSAL

CHAPTER XXIV.
MY NEW WORLD

CHAPTER XXV.
BIEN PERDU, BIEN CONNU

CHAPTER XXVI.
A DINNER





CHAPTER I.

VARICK STREET.

O for one spot of living green,
One little spot where leaves can grow,--
To love unblamed, to walk unseen,
To dream above, to sleep below!

_Holmes_.


There are in this loud stunning tide,
Of human care and crime,