E-text prepared by David Garcia, Tamise Totterdell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library (http://kdl.kyvl.org/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 23517-h.htm or 23517-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/5/1/23517/23517-h/23517-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/5/1/23517/23517-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Kentuckiana Digital Library. See http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=kyetexts;cc=kyetexts;xc=1&idno=B92-235-31281121&view=toc THE ANGEL OF THE TENEMENT by GEORGE MADDEN MARTIN [Illustration] New York Bonnell, Silver & Co. 1897 Copyright by Bonnell, Silver & Co., 1897. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. The Advent of the Angel 1 II. The Entertainers of the Angel 16 III. Introduces the Little Major 26 IV. The Angel Becomes a Fairy 37 V. The Angel Rescues Mr. Tomlin 55 VI. The Major Superintends the Angel's Education 72 VII. Miss Ruth makes the Acquaintance of Old G. A. R. 90 VIII. The Angel meets an old Friend 99 IX. Mary Carew is Tempted 111 X. The Major Obeys Orders 122 XI. Tells of the Tenement's Christmas 125 THE ANGEL OF THE TENEMENT. CHAPTER I. THE ADVENT OF THE ANGEL. The ladies of the Tenement felt that it was a matter concerning the reputation of the house. Therefore on this particular hot July morning they were gathered in the apartment of Miss Mary Carew and Miss Norma Bonkowski, if one small and dingy room may be so designated, and were putting the matter under discussion. Miss Carew, tall, bony, and more commonly known to the Tenement as Miss C'rew, of somewhat tart and acrid temper, being pressed for her version of the story, paused in her awkward and intent efforts at soothing the beautiful, fair-haired child upon her lap and explained that she was stepping out her door that morning with her water-bucket, thinking to get breakfast ready before Miss Bonkowski awoke, when a child's frightened crying startled her, coming from a room across the hall which for some weeks had been for rent.