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"I'm sorry I said it, daddy I did not mean it in that way It isn't the money, you know, and it isn't the ho the rest of ood and tender nurse found o back there and give the rest of my years to children who are less fortunate than I was I want to help them, mother, just as you did--only it is different with me"

"You'll see it differently some day," said Mrs Cable earnestly

"I don't object to your helping the foundlings, Jane," said Cable, "but I don't see why you have to be a nurse to do it Other women support such causes and not as nurses, either It's--"

"It's my way, daddy, that's all," she said firmly

"Then why, in the name of Heaven, were you so unkind as to keep that poor boy over there alive when he ht have died and ended his ive him a wound that cannot be healed You would ruin his life, Jane Is it fair? Damn me, I'inning--but I really believe I've got more heart in me than you have"

"David!" exclaimed his wife Jane looked at the exasperated man in surprise

"Now here's what I intend you to do: you owe ive to you; you owe Graydon soo into the nursing business, all right But I' to demand some of your devotion for my own sake before that time comes I've loved you all of your life--"

"And I've loved you, daddy," she gasped

"And I' toup business for the sake of enjoying it unrestrained Yourabroad for our health and we are going to take you with us Right nohere you begin your career as a nurse You've got to begin by taking care of the love that is sick and miserable We want it to live, my dear Noant a direct decision--at once: will you take charge of two patients on a long-contees paid in advance?"

She looked at hi it before her fluently and in a new light She sahat it was that he considered that she owed thehter, after all