Calvary Alley

Calvary Alley is the name of a row of squalid tenements just under the shadow of a large cathedral where the inhabitants and the aristocracy walk within feet of each other. Nancy Malloy is a girl from the alley with intelligence and ambition. In the end she cares for a workman who was a childhood friend from the alley.

Excerpt: "You never would guess in visiting Cathedral Court, with its people's hall and its public baths, its clean, paved street and general air of smug propriety, that it harbors a notorious past. But those who knew it by its maiden name, before it was married to respectability, recall Calvary Alley as a region of swarming tenements, stale beer dives, and frequent police raids. The sole remaining trace of those unregenerate days is the print of a child's foot in the concrete walk just where it leaves the court and turns into the cathedral yard."