l take good care of her," he said to himself, as she pushed along
out of the cars. "All I need to do is to follow the rest."

He did not understand what she said to the others in German, but it
was: "I'll bring Mr. Ogden. He will know how to look out for himself,
very soon."

She meant to see him safely to the Hotel Dantzic, that morning; and the
next thing Jack knew he was going down a long flight of stairs, to the
sidewalk, while Miss Hildebrand was explaining that part of the city
they were in. Even while she was talking, and while he was looking in
all directions, she wheeled him suddenly to the left, and they came to
a halt.

"Hotel Dantzic," read Jack aloud, from the sign. "It's a tall
building; but it's very thin."

The ladies went into the waiting-room, while Jack followed Mr.
Guilderaufenberg into the office. The German was welcomed by the
proprietor as if he were an old acquaintance.

A moment afterward, Mr. Guilderaufenberg turned away from the desk and
said to Jack:

"My poy, I haf a room for you. Eet ees high oop, but eet ees goot; und
you bays only feefty cent a day. You bay for von veek, now. You puys
vot you eats vere you blease in de ceety."

The three dollars and a half paid for the first week made the first
break in Jack's capital of nine dollars.

"Any way," he thought, when he paid it, "I have found a place to sleep
in. Money'll go fast in the city, and I must look out. I'll put my
baggage in my room and then come down to breakfast."

"You breakfast mit us dees time," said Mr. Guilderaufenberg, kindly.
"Den you not see us more, maybe, till you comes to Vashington."

Jack got his key and the number of his room and was making his way to
the foot of a stairway when a very polite man said to him:

"This way, sir. This way to the elevator. Seventh floor, sir."

Jack had heard and read of elevators, but it was startling to ride in
one for the first time. It was all but full when he got in, and after
it started, his first thought was:

"How it's loaded! What if the rope should break!"

It stopped to let a man out, and started and stopped again and again,
but it seemed only a few long, breathless moments before the man in
charge of it said; "Seventh, sir!"

The moment Jack was in his room he exclaimed:

"Isn't this grand, though? It's only about twice as big as that
stateroom on the steamboat. I can feel at home here."

It was a pleasant little room, and Jack began at on