problems. I have a pitiful heart; I try to keep a philosophic
mind; I am cheery with them; I am doubtful, I am hopeful!

I never give help feeling sure that I have done wisely, I never
refuse the worst and feel sure that I have done well. I live
near the heart of humanity, I count its heart-beats, I hear its
throbs.

I realise some of the difficulties that beset us, I see some of
the heights and depths to which humanity can ascend or descend.
I have learned that the greatest factors in life are kindly
sympathy, brotherly love, a willingness to believe the best of
the worst, and to have an infinite faith in the ultimate triumph
of good!



CHAPTER II

LONDON'S UNDERWORLD

London's great underworld to many may be an undiscovered country.
To me it is almost as familiar as my own fireside; twenty-five
years of my life have been spent amongst its inhabitants, and
their lives and circumstances have been my deep concern.

Sad and weary many of those years have been, but always full of
absorbing interest. Yet I have found much that gave me pleasure,
and it is no exaggeration when I say that some of my happiest
hours have been spent among the poorest inhabitants of the great