` I 've got no home . ' '' ` Where do you live ? ' '' ` In the street . ' '' ` Where do you sleep ? ' '' ` Anywhere ; last night in the lock-up , and I thought I 'd get in there again , if I did that when you saw me . I like to go there , it 's warm and safe . ' '' ` If I do n't take you there , what will you do ? ' '' ` Do n't know . I could go over there and dance again as I used to , but being sick has made me ugly , so they wo n't have me , and no one else will take me because I have been there once . ' `` I looked where she pointed , and thanked the Lord that they would n't take her . It was one of those low theatres that do so much damage to the like of her ; there was a gambling place one side of it , an eating saloon the other . I was new to the work then , but though I 'd heard about hunger and homelessness often enough , I 'd never had this sort of thing , nor seen that look on a girl 's face . A white , pinched face hers was , with frightened , tired-looking eyes , but so innocent ! She was n't more than sixteen , had been pretty once , I saw , looked sick and starved now , and seemed just the most helpless , hopeless little thing that ever was . '' ` You 'd better come to the Station for to-night , and we 'll see to you to-morrow , ' says I. '' ` Thank you , sir , ' says she , looking as grateful as if I 'd asked her home . I suppose I did speak kind of fatherly . I ai n't ashamed to say I felt so , seeing what a child she was ; nor to own that when she put her little hand in mine , it hurt me to feel how thin and cold it was . We passed the eating-house where the red lights made her face as rosy as it ought to have been ; there was meat and pies in the window , and the poor thing stopped to look . It was too much for her ; off came her shawl , and she said in that coaxing way of hers , -- '' ' I wish you 'd let me stop at the place close by and sell this ; they 'll give a little for it , and I 'll get some supper . I 've had nothing since yesterday morning , and maybe cold is easier to bear than hunger . ' ''
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