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o confused by the jostling and pushing that he was glad to turn down a side street and to sit down for a time on a doorstep. When nine o'clock approached he went into a baker's shop and bought a loaf, which would, he thought, do for supper and breakfast for himself and his companion. Having further invested threepence in cheese, he made his way up to the market. The Shadow was standing at the corner whistling loudly. "Oh, here yer be! That's all right; come along. I have squared Ned, and it's all right." He led the way down two or three streets and then stopped at a gateway. "You stop here," he said, "and I will see as there aint no one but Ned about." He returned in a minute. "It's all clear! Ned, he's a-rubbing down a hoss; he won't take no notice of yer as yer pass. He don't want to see yer, yer know, 'cause in case anyone comed and found yer up there he could swear he never saw yer go in, and didn't know nothing about yer. I will go with yer to the door, and then yer will see a ladder in the corner; if yer whip up that yer'll find it all right up there." "But you are coming too, aint you?" George asked. "Oh, no, I aint a-coming. Yer don't want a chap like me up there. I might pick yer pocket, yer know; besides I aint your sort." "Oh, nonsense!" George said. "I should like to have you with me, Bill; I should really. Besides, what's the difference between us? We have both got to work for ourselves and make our way in the world." "There's a lot of difference. Yer don't talk the way as I do; yer have been brought up different. Don't tell me." "I may have been brought up differently, Bill. I have been fortunate there; but now, you see, I have got to get my living in the best way I can, and if I have had a better education than you have, you know ever so much more about London and how to get your living than I do, so that makes us quits." "Oh, wery well," Bill said; "it's all the same to this child. So if yer aint too proud, here goes." He led the way down a stable yard, past several doors, showing the empty stalls which would be all filled when the market carts arrived. At the last door on the right he stopped. George looked in. At the further end a man was rubbing down a horse by the faint light of a lantern, the rest of the stable was in darkness. "This way," Bill whispered. Keeping close behind him, George entered the stable. The boy stopped in the corner. "Here's the ladder. I
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