himself. Any man he passed who had dark hair and blue eyes might be his father.
These considerations put a limitation on the streets he frequented. He did not want to go to the North Side, where his father lived, or to Madison Street, where boys knew him and where the agents of his father would probably be watching for him, or to the South Side where Lampert was. He stayed on the West Side, but this was where representatives of the Juvenile Court were most likely to apprehend him, and he suspected that his father and Lampert would be watching the Juvenile Court.
His daily expenditures for living were not quite ten cents. He could, by strict economy, reduce this slightly, but reduction of expenditures did not solve the problem, since he had no money coming in. Mrs. Markyn, he knew, would have given him something to eat, but he did not know whether Lampert had not told her more about him, and he was determined not to see her if that was so. When his money was gone, he began to spend long periods outside of bakery windows looking at the food, and to
