In this work, the protagonist's wife becomes willing to accept an apartment without a number due to her fascination with a black janitor.  
In this work, the protagonist's wife becomes willing to accept an apartment without a number due to her fascination with a black janitor.  One character in this work is rejected by Alma Leighton after expressing interest in the charity worker Margaret Vance and is dismissed by a girl who wishes to marry him only until receiving her father's approval, Christine.  Another character in this work is killed by a stray bullet during a streetcar strike while trying to defend a one-handed socialist whom his father had recently fired after fighting with him at a dinner party.  Before moving to Paris after the death of his son Conrad, Mr. Dryfoos sells the literary magazine Every Other Week to the protagonist and Mr. Fulkerson.  FTP, name this novel following Basil March, a work of William Dean Howells.
In this work, the protagonist's wife becomes willing to accept an apartment without a number due to her fascination with a black janitor.  
A Hazard of New Fortunes