Chapter26

#Chapter26

HUBERT VARRICK RESCUES JESSIE BAIN.

We must return to Jessie Bain.

The girl had scarcely proceeded a block through the blinding snow-drifts ere she began to grow chill and numb.

/"I can never make my way to the store!/" she moaned. /"I— I will perish in this awful cold!/"

She grew bewildered as to the direction which had been given her. /"It can not be that I am going the right way,/" she sobbed.

Involuntarily she turned around and took the first cross-street in view. She had scarcely made her way half a dozen blocks when the knowledge was fully forced upon her that she must have lost her way, that each step she took was bringing her toward the suburbs of the city instead of the business portion.