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`` You are quite welcome , '' returned Ralph , and he walked off . He was destined to meet the bootblack again , and under circumstances full of the gravest peril . After leaving the bootblack Ralph hardly knew what to do with himself . It was barely three o'clock , and he fancied it still too early to visit Horace Kelsey 's office again . He concluded to walk around and see the sights , and accordingly strolled up Broadway past the City Hall Park , and continued on up until Fourteenth street was reached . This great thoroughfare , with its immense stores , interested him greatly . He spent fully half an hour in looking into the show-windows .