uyvil Creek, which his friend
pointed out, and the city began to make its appearance.

"It's on both sides," said Jack. "No, that's New Jersey"--and he read
the names on that side from his guidebook.

Masts, wharves, buildings, and beyond them spires, and--and Jack grew
dizzy trying to think of that endless wilderness of streets and houses.
He heard what Mr. Guilderaufenberg said about the islands in the
harbor, the forts, the ferries, and yet he did not hear it plainly,
because it was too much to take in all at once.

"Now I brings de ladies," said Mr. Guilderaufenberg, "an' ve eats
breakfast, ven ve all gets to de Hotel Dantzic. Come!"

Jack took one long, sweeping look at the city, so grand and so
beautiful under the newly risen sun, and followed.

At that same hour a dark-haired girl sat by an open window in the
village of Mertonville. She had arisen and dressed herself, early as
it was, and she held in her hand a postal-card, which had arrived for
her from Albany the night before.

"By this time," she said, "Jack is in the city. Oh, how I wish I were
with him!"

She was silent after that, but she had hardly said it before one of two
small boys, who had been pounding one another with pillows in a very
small bedroom in Crofield, suddenly threw his pillow at the other, and
exclaimed:

"I s'pose Jack's there by this time, Jimmy!"

CHAPTER XII.

IN A NEW WORLD.

Jack Ogden stood like a boy in a dream, as the "Columbia" swept
gracefully into her dock and was made fast. Her swing about was helped
by the outgoing tide, that foamed and swirled around the projecting
piers.

A hurrying crowd of people was thronging out of the "Columbia," but
Jack's German friend did not join them.

"De ceety vill not roon avay," he said, calmly. "You comes mit me."

They went to the cabin for the ladies, and Jack noticed how much
baggage the rest were carrying. He took a satchel from Miss
Hildebrand, and then the Polish lady, with a grateful smile, allowed
him to take another.

"Dose crowds ees gone," remarked Mr. Guilderaufenberg. "Ve haf our
chances now."

Afterward, Jack had a confused memory of walking over a wide gang-plank
that led into a babel. Miss Hildebrand held him by his left arm while
the two other ladies went with Mr. Guilderaufenberg. They came out
into a street, between two files of men who shook their whips, shouted,
and pointed at a line of carriages. Miss Hildebrand told Jack that
t