took Hewett into their employment as a porter, and paid him twenty-five shillings a week--of which sum, however, the odd five shillings were privately made up by Michael.

On receiving this appointment, John drew the sigh of a man who finds himself in haven after perilous beating about a lee shore.

The kitchen in King's Cross Bead was abandoned, and with Sidney Kirkwood's aid the family found much more satisfactory quarters.

Friends of Sidney's, a man and wife of middle age without children, happened to be looking for lodgings: it was decided that they and John Hewett should join in the tenancy of a fiat, up on the fifth storey of the huge block of tenements called Farringdon Road Buildings.

By this arrangement the children would be looked after, and the weekly twenty-five shillings could be made to go much further than on the ordinary system.