You heard of Major Hagenback's death, didn't you ?" Cowperwood, who had heard something of the story from Colonel Gillis, nodded.

"Well, I have just been notified by the police that I will have to move, and the landlord has given me notice, too.

If it just weren't for my two children--" She dabbed at her eyes pathetically.
Cowperwood meditated interestedly.
"Haven't you any place you can go ?" he asked.
"I have a summer place in Pennsylvania," she confessed; "but I can't go there very well in February.

Besides, it's my living I'm worrying about.

I have only this to depend on." She waved her hand inclusively toward the various rooms.