"Sal!" Gloria called gently, "I'm going to No. 80 Pleasant Street. Do
you want to send a message?"

"Number Eighty?" Sal repeated slowly.

"Yes, where mother is, Sal. Shall I take a message to your mother for
you?"

"Tell her I ain't been beat once--not nary."

Pleasant Street was still "Treeless Street," to Gloria's regret. And
they passed the same dreary succession of tenements. The same old little
children played in the street. But at Dinney's House Gloria's eyes
shone.

"Oh, Uncle Em! New windows, new steps, new everything!" She was helped
gently down, and Rose was there to greet her. How happy Rose looked!
And there was Sal's mother in the background, and then came Dinney and
Hunkie.

"Ain't it fine!" cried Dinney. Gloria looked at the boy and laughed.
"Look at the new stairs!"

They took her here and there, then made her rest a moment in Rose's
room.

But it was not for long that Gloria was allowed to linger even in her
own house. Her eyes were growing tired, and Aunt Em pressed forward
solicitously.