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Plying him with questions about Ricse and Ricse people, she prepared him the first meal he had been able to retain for a fortnight. This finished, she got his best suit out of his little hair-cloth trunk, pressed it, filled the wash-tub with hot water, and left him alone in the kitchen for a scrub. His self-respect restored, Adolph felt less timid about Cousin Gustavus. He slept that night in a scratched-up bed on the floor of Mrs. Lowy’s parlour; and next morning enquired his way to the doctor’s office in Lexington Avenue.
Gustavus proved an agreeable disappointment. “ Come and stay with me until you find something to do,” he said. So Adolph transferred his hair-cloth trunk from the tenement of the hospitable Mrs. Lowy to the doctor’s uptown flat.
Nevertheless, Dr. Gustavus had in the pessimistic letter told the truth. There seemed small chance of Adolph getting a job until he learned something of the difficult, unfamiliar English language. Six months at school might turn the trick, but Adolph had no funds to keep him going meanwhile. Dr. Gustavus put out feelers in the Hungarian colony. They came to nothing. An undersized, greenhorn boy without a trade or without English seemed a worthless piece of human material.
Meantime, Adolph walked the streets of Manhattan; a gaping young rustic in a strangely cut suit of oldcountry clothes. He had whirled through Budapest, Vienna, and Berlin, seeing little beyond the railroad