on the board of a hospital for little children,
and spent a part of every day among the
cots where the sufferers lay. Now and then
when we spent a quiet evening alone with
her and Leroy, she sewed continually on
little white night-gowns for these poor babies.
She used her carriage to take the most ex-
traordinary persons riding.

"In the cause of health," Leroy used to
say, "I ought to have the carriage fumi-
gated after every ride Judith takes, for she
is always accompanied by some one who looks
as if he or she should go into quarantine."

One night, when he was chaffing her in
this way, she flung her sewing suddenly
from her and sprang to her feet, as if she
were going to give way to a burst of girlish
temper. Instead of that, a stream of tears
poured from her eyes, and she held out her
trembling hands toward Jessica.

"He does not know," she sobbed. "He
cannot understand."

One memorable day Leroy hastened over
to us while we were still at breakfast to say
that Judith was ill, -- strangely ill. All night
long she had been muttering to herself as if