Part 1. "Looking For The Guide"
Part 1. "Looking For The Guide" - Chapter 1. "Three On A Doorstep"
_ FIRST PART. "LOOKING FOR THE GUIDE"
CHAPTER I. "THREE ON A DOORSTEP"
"The night is dark, and I am far from home. Lead Thou me on"
In a poor part of London, but not in the very poorest part--two children sat on a certain autumn evening, side by side on a doorstep. The eldest might have been ten, the youngest eight. The eldest was a girl, the youngest a boy. Drawn up in front of these children, looking into their little faces with hungry, loving, pathetic eyes, lay a mongrel dog.
The three were alone, for the street in which they sat was a cul-de-sac --leading nowhere； and at this hour, on this Sunday evening, seemed quite deserted. The boy and girl were no East End waifs； they were clean； they looked respectable； and the doorstep which gave them a temporary resting-place belonged to no far-famed Stepney or Poplar. It stood in a little, old-fashioned, old-world court, b

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