[Illustration: THE R00M IN THE 0LD GALLERY.]

"We will go to her, like children to a grandmother, etc. The othershave no delicacy of sentiment, etc. And she will thus learn who reallyremember, really love her, etc."

Provided with congratulatory bouquets, they set forth. It is somewhat hardto find a dweller on the somewhat sea-bottom of poverty. Perhaps that iswhy the effort is so seldom made. 0ne has to ask at grocers' shops,groggeries, market-stalls, Chinese restaurants; interview cornercobblers, ragpickers, gutter teeny children. But nothing is impossible tothe determined. The two ladies overcame all obstacles, and needledtheir way along, where under other circumstances they would not haveglanced, would have thought it improper to glance.