Chester , after paying his fare to Montrose and buying his cheese and crackers , had just sixty cents left . This must last him until he found work , so that the luxury of lodgings was out of the question , even if he had known where to look for them . To be sure , there were benches in a public square right in front of him ; but Chester was afraid that if he curled up on one of them for the night , a policeman might question him , and he did not believe he could give a very satisfactory account of himself . In his perplexity , he thought of his cosy lumber pile at Roxbury Station and remembered that when he had left the boat he had noticed a large vacant lot near the wharf which was filled with piles of lumber . Back to this he went and soon succeeded in finding a place to stow himself . His last waking thought was that he must be up and doing bright and early the next morning , and that it must surely be longer than twenty-four hours since he had crept downstairs and out of Aunt Harriet 's porch window at Upton . * * * * * Montrose seemed less alarming by daylight , which was not so bewildering as the blinking electric lights . Chester was up betimes , ate the last of his cheese and crackers and started out at once to look for work . He determined to be thorough , and he went straight into every place of business he came to , from a blacksmith 's forge to a department store , and boldly asked the first person he met if they wanted a boy there . There was , however , one class of places Chester shunned determinedly . He never went into a liquor saloon . The last winter he had been allowed to go to school in Upton , his teacher had been a pale , patient little woman who hated the liquor traffic with all her heart . She herself had suffered bitterly through it , and she instilled into her pupils a thorough aversion to it . Chester would have chosen death by starvation before he would have sought for employment in a liquor saloon . But there certainly did not seem room for him anywhere else . Nobody wanted a boy . The answer to his question was invariably `` No . '' As the day wore on , Chester 's hopes and courage went down to zero , but he still tramped doggedly about . He would be thorough , at least . Surely somewhere in this big place , where everyone seemed so busy , there must be something for him to do .
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