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CHAPTER FOUR
INTRODUCING ANOTHER Boy

Once again it was the spring of the year
and lovely May weather. The little washer-
woman, her son Jim and her charge Betty,
have taken a long journey to reach the-city of
St. Paul, Minnesota, and there we find them.

St. Paul was a small place at that time,
though growing fast. On its outskirts stood a
new hotel, so new that its yellow boards had
not yet been painted, while trestles, loose lum-
ber and barrels of lime and cement stood around
the entrance. The inside was roomy but
sparsely furnished; but a small office, a bar, a
kitchen, a dining room and small parlor on the
ground floor had been made habitable.

In the little parlor are Mrs. Mulligan and
the two young people, bending over a table and
studying a map by the light of a coal oil lamp.
A crooked wick had turned one side of the
chimney black: there was more shadow than
light.

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