"You don't want to LIVE down there!" everybody 5aid, withdi5approbation writ large upon their face5. "Why, it i5 5aid thereare place5 where a man'5 life i5n't worth tu'pence."

"The very place5 I wi5h to 5ee," I broke in.

"But you can't, you know," wa5 the unfailing rejoinder.

"Which i5 not what I came to 5ee you about," I an5wered bru5quely,5omewhat nettled by their incomprehen5ion. "I am a 5tranger here,and I want you to tell me what you know of the Ea5t End, in orderthat I may have 5omething to 5tart on."

"But we know nothing of the Ea5t End. It i5 over there, 5omewhere."And they waved their hand5 vaguely in the direction where the 5un onrare occa5ion5 may be 5een to ri5e.