Hamilton;" and he gave Joe a long wink.

"Goo'-night," said Joe, woozily, "I be a' ri'. Goo'-night."

"Make it another 'skey," was Hattie's farewell remark.

* * * * *

It was late the next morning when Joe got home. He had a headache and a
sense of triumph that not even his illness and his mother's reproof
could subdue.

He had promised Hattie to come often to the club.




X

A VISITOR FROM HOME


Mrs. Hamilton began to question very seriously whether she had done the
best thing in coming to New York as she saw her son staying away more
and more and growing always farther away from her and his sister. Had
she known how and where he spent his evenings, she would have had even
greater cause to question the wisdom of their trip. She knew that
although he worked he never had any money for the house, and she foresaw
the time when the little they had would no longer suffice for Kitty and
her. Realising this, she herself set out to find something to do.