rously and prosperously?

The season wore on. It was the latter part of May. Jack had taken Edith
and the boy down to the Long Island house, and had returned to the city
and was living at his club, feverishly waiting for some change in his
affairs. It was a sufficient explanation of his anxiety that money
was "tight," that failures were daily announced, and that there was
a general fear of worse times. It was fortunate for Jack and other
speculators that they could attribute their ill-luck to the general
financial condition. There were reasons enough for this condition. Some
attributed it to want of confidence, others to the tariff, others to
the action of this or that political party, others to over-production,
others to silver, others to the action of English capitalists in
withdrawing their investments. It could all be accounted for without
referring to the fact that most of the individual sufferers, like Jack,
owed more than they could pay.

Henderson was much of the time absent--at the West and at the South. His
every move was watched, his least sayings were reported as significant,
and the Street was hopeful or depressed as he seemed to be cheerful or
unusually taciturn. Uncle Jerry was the calmest man in town, and his
observation that Henderson knew what he was about was reassuring. His
serenity was well founded. The fact was that he had been pulling in and
lowering canvas for months. Or, as he put it, he hadn't much hay out...
"It's never a good plan," said Uncle Jerry, "to put off raking up till
the shower begins."

It seems absurd to speak of the East Side in connection with the
financial situation. But that was where the pinch was felt, and felt
first. Work was slack, and that meant actual hunger for many families.
The monetary solidarity of the town is remarkable. No one flies a kite
in Wall Street that somebody in Rivington Street does not in consequence
have to go without his dinner. As Dr. Leigh went her daily rounds she
encountered painful evidence of the financial disturbance. Increased
number of cases for the doctor followed want of sufficient food and the
eating of cheap, unwholesome food. She was often obliged to draw upon
the Margaret Fund, and to invoke the aid of Father Damon when the
responsibility was too great for her. And Father Damon found that
his ministry was daily diverted from the cure of souls to the care of
bodies. Among all those who came to the mission as a place of refuge
and rest