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Updated: June 1, 2025
The man had kept his home in the old brick house on Washington Square in lower New York even after the other houses in the square around it gradually changed from pleasant, neat homes to shabby boarding-houses or rooming houses with broken windows and railless steps; to dusty lofts; to cellars where Jews kept and sorted over their filthy rags; to dingy attic spaces where artists made their studios, turning queer, dilapidated corners into what they called their homes.
In the good old times of duels, and bagatelle-clubs, and theatre-balls, and Cayetano's circus, Kristian Koppig rooming as described, there lived in the portion of this house, partly overhanging the archway, a palish handsome woman, by the name or going by the name of Madame John. You would hardly have thought of her being "colored."
"Together!" was the united response. "Wait a moment," said Anne. "I wish to ask you, Mabel, if you would object to rooming with Grace. I have roomed with her so long that I feel as though I" with a mischievous glance at Grace's amazed face, Anne finished in a deliberate tone "were very selfish. So I thought perhaps you would appreciate an opportunity to have her to yourself, too."
"That's what I kind of thought too," said J.W., simply, "but rooming with Marty Shenk he's going to make a great preacher too keeps me thinking, and I know about all the students who are getting ready for special work, and lately I've been wondering " "About some special sort of work you'd like to do?" Mr. Drury prompted. "No; not that at all. I'm just as sure as ever I'm not that sort.
Then suddenly it was announced that Loring had decided not only to return to the hotel for table board, but was actually rooming there, and the landlord of whom he had rented his rooms turned up with a grievance, at least his wife did, and when a woman has a grievance, nine times out of ten the world gets the benefit of it. Mrs. Landlord came round to the chief quartermaster with her complaint.
The others," bulking them as being of no consequence, "are all gentlemen who are employed on the directory under Mr. Hertz." "Have you any Italian lodgers other than Mr. Spatola?" The woman shook her head. "No," she said, "and I don't want none, if this is the way they carry on." "Are there any other rooming houses in the street?" "No, sir. It's only a block long, and I know every house in it.
"All right," he answered in a voice that trembled, "we'll go; but" turning to Neil "if you think I'm going to put up with this sort of thing, you're mistaken. You can have this room, and I'll get another." "I'd suggest your rooming with Cowan," answered Neil, "since you're so fond of him." "Your friend's jealous," laughed Cowan from the hall. Paul joined him, slamming the door loudly as he went.
In his anxiety as he waited for the verdict of the surgeons he only gave the detectives Murphy's name and the address of the rooming house. They were gone before he could tell them he knew Murphy had been "bashed" by the "Gink's" men. "He's in bad shape," the chief surgeon told him. "Skull fracture; arms, jaw, ribs and nose broken; internal injuries; cuts and bruises; lost a lot of blood."
In taking rooms for her family at the hotel, Lottie had arranged for her emancipation from the thraldom of rooming with Ellen. She said that had gone on long enough; if she was grown up at all, she was grown up enough to have a room of her own, and her mother had yielded to reasoning which began and ended with this position.
But nothing more happened that night, though even in the dull, ghost hours of the early morning they did not relax their vigil. But all the next day there was still no sign of Caroline Smith in the house across the street; no face like hers ever appeared at the windows. Apparently the place was a harmless rooming house of fairly good quality.
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