"Just keep walking until you see a lot of Jewish people. It
isn't far from here." With which he slipped a silver quarter into my
hand and made Gitelson bid me good-by
The two then boarded a big red horse-car
I was left with a sickening sense of having been tricked, cast off,
and abandoned. I stood watching the receding public vehicle, as
though its scarlet hue were my last gleam of hope in the world.
When it finally disappeared from view my heart sank within me. I
may safely say that the half-hour that followed is one of the worst
I experienced in all the thirty-odd years of my life in this country
The big, round nostrils of the contractor and the gray forelock of
my young steerage-fellow haunted my brain as hideous symbols of
treachery.
With twenty-nine cents in my pocket (four cents was all that was
left of the sum which I had received from Matilda and her mother)
I set forth in the direction of East Broadway
CHAPTER II TEN minutes' walk brought me to the heart of the
Jewish East Side. The streets swarmed with Yiddish-speaking
immigrants.
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