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Richard Treadwell sent a description of Maggie Williams' missing sister to the police authorities, and also inserted a cautious but alluring personal in all the leading newspapers; still the missing Lucille did not return, and nothing was heard of her.

"My God, what it is to be poor!" Richard mused one morning as he walked up Broadway. "Why, the glimpses I get during my visits to Mulberry Street, of the trials and privations the poor endure, makes me heartsick. There's Gilbert, blind and helpless, forced to spend his time on a Broadway corner begging his living. Sitting there waiting