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One would like to follow these people through their vagrant life, and see them in their social relations, and overhear their talk with each other. All vagrants are interesting; and there is a much greater variety of them here than in America, people who cast themselves on Fortune, and take whatever she gives without a certainty of anything.
Hal judged this a profound observation, and wished that it might be communicated to the professor of political economy at Harrigan. On the second night of his acquaintance with "Dutch Mike," their "jungle" was raided by a constable with half a dozen deputies; for a determined effort was being made just then to drive vagrants from the neighbourhood or to get them to work in the mines.
Left alone, the vagrants' queen, placing her yellow and skinny hand on a weapon, perhaps, among her rags, resolutely moved toward the spy. He expected to be interrogated, for an attack was unlikely from a lone old woman; but he grasped his cane firmly.
There are derelict churches in the Strand, and dingy blatant taverns, and strident signs and hoardings; and there are slums hard by. There are thieves in the Strand, and prowling vagrants, and gaunt hawkers, and touts, and gamblers, and loitering failures, with tragic eyes and wilted garments; and prostitutes plying for hire. And east and west, and north and south of the Strand, there is London.
Everywhere a terrific struggle, many sinking down into the city's underworld of crime, men becoming vagrants or thieves, women walking the streets as prostitutes. And over this broad foundation of the "people" rose the structure of business and politics, equally corrupted or so it seemed to Joe, as it does to every one who is fresh to the facts.
That men of this kind should have access to arms and ammunition of the latest military type and a machine gun. What was behind it all? He tried to reason it out in his old-fashioned way even as the trembling horde filed past, cordoned by grim, silent cowboys. The vagrants were escorted out of town in a body.
Chief Dinan has determined that those who apply for relief and refuse work when it is offered them shall leave the city or be arrested for vagrancy. The police judges have suggested establishing a chain gang and putting all vagrants and petty offenders at work clearing up the ruins. Perhaps never in the history of the city has there been so little crime in San Francisco.
The whole expense of the war was thrown for the time upon their hands, and the English soldiers seemed only a few thousand starving, naked, dying vagrants, an incumbrance instead of an aid. The States, in their turn, drew the purse-strings. The two hundred thousand florins monthly were paid.
The leader of these vagrants was a man named Philip Hogan, a fellow of surprising strength and desperate character, whose feats of hardihood and daring had given him a fearful notoriety over a large district of the country.
"Yes, and talk!" However much she enjoyed Father's chatter, Mother felt that she owed it to her conscience which she kept as neat and well dusted, now that they were vagrants, as she had in a New York flat to reprove him occasionally, for his own good. "Say, this is exciting. That's a bonfire ahead," Father whispered. They slowed their pace to a stealthy walk.
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