employment for the older children, an' Lizzie induced her parents
to adopt two that were just out of their mother's arms--a girl of
one an' a boy of three years. I suggested to Lizzie that it seemed
to me a serious undertaking, but she felt that she ought to be
awfully good by way of atonement for the folly of her past life.
It was near the end of the year, an' I happen to know that when
Christmas came a little sack containing five hundred dollars in
gold was delivered at Sam Henshaw's door for Lizzie from a source
unknown to her. That paid for the nurse, an' eased the situation."




V

IN WHICH LIZZIE EXERTS AN INFLUENCE ON THE AFFAIRS OF THE RICH AND
GREAT

A year after Socrates Potter had told of the descent of Lizzie, and
the successful beginning of her new life, I called again at his
office.

"How is Pointview?" I asked.

"Did ye ever learn how it happened to be called Pointview?" he
inquired.

"No."

"Well, it began with a little tavern with a tap-room called the