Guy Hammersley; or, Clearing his Name — page 167: what you’re looking at

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158 GUY HAMMERSLEY. CHAPTER XXIV A STRANGE NIGHT ADVENTURE. A werk went by. Mrs. Hammersley grew no better, and still required constant attendance, so that Ruth could not think of seeking an opening for teaching. Besides, there was no one but herself te see after the housekeeping. Ward had walked the streets day after day in search of work, and finally succeeded in finding a job in a drug store which brought him in but four dollars a week and required him to work for it fourteen hours a day. But he was so discouraged with his weary quest, that he readily closed with this offer and was fain to consider him- self lucky to get even that. Meanwhile the finances of the little household were being steadily depleted. The doctor was a stranger and must be paid promptly, while the same ‘was the case with the medicines, even though they came from Beman & Bawn’s, where Ward was em- ployed. Already a portion of Guy’s income had been en- croached upon instead of being rigorously set aside for rent day, now less than three weeks distant. What they were going to do poor Guy could not conceive. He was certainly doing his part, as a salary of ten dollars a week was undeniably a good Gomicbooks (€(©) m