1 The little person who leads this trio is an inspired man.
2 There was a baby crying as they entered, and he closed the door leading into the bedroom.
3 The latter shook his head, and before he realized what had happened the policemen were leading him away again.
4 The street was turning into a country road, leading out to the westward; there were snow-covered fields on either side of him.
5 It was only when the policeman who had him by the arm turned and started to lead him away that he realized that sentence had been passed.
6 Jurgis bounded to a door of the room and flung it open; there was a ladder leading through a trap door to the garret, and he was at the foot of it when suddenly he heard a voice behind him, and saw Marija at his heels.
7 By means of these passages the customers of any one place could be gotten out of the way, in case a falling out with the police chanced to lead to a raid; and also it was necessary to have a way of getting a girl out of reach in case of an emergency.
8 There was a hue and cry, and a score of men and boys started in chase of him; but he came to an alley, and then to another branching off from it and leading him into another street, where he fell into a walk, and slipped his cabbage under his coat and went off unsuspected in the crowd.
9 The resemblance was not complete, of course, for Jurgis was generously paid and comfortably clad, and was provided with a spring cot and a mattress and three substantial meals a day; also he was perfectly at ease, and safe from all peril of life and limb, save only in the case that a desire for beer should lead him to venture outside of the stockyards gates.