"Be here by the next steamer! How do you
know?"

The doctor held up the letter.

"Lucy will remain," he added. "She is going
to Germany to continue her studies."

"And Jane is coming home alone?"

"No, she brings a little child with her, the son
of a friend, she writes. She asks that I arrange
to have Martha meet them at the dock."

"Somebody, I suppose, she has picked up out of
the streets. She is always doing these wild, unpractical
things. Whose child is it?"

"She doesn't say, but I quite agree with you that
it was helpless, or she wouldn't have protected it."

"Why don't Lucy come with her?"

The doctor shrugged his shoulders.

"And I suppose you will go to the ship to meet
her?"

The doctor drew himself up, clicked his heels
together with the air of an officer saluting his superior