CHAPTER VII.
JILTED Mrs.Ranger consented to a third girl, to do the additional heavy work; but a nurse--no! What had Hiram a wife for, and a daughter, and a son, if not to take care of him?
What kind of heartlessness was this, to talk of permitting a stranger to do the most sacred offices of love?
And only by being on the watch early and late did Adelaide and Arthur prevent her doing everything for him herself.
"Everybody, nowadays, has trained nurses in these cases," said Dr.
Schulze.

"I don't think you ought to object to the expense." But the crafty taunt left her as indifferent as did the argument from what "everybody does." "I don't make rules for others," replied she.

"I only say that nobody shall touch Hiram but us of his own blood.

I won't hear to it, and the children won't hear to it.

They're glad to have the chance to do a little something for him that has done everything for them." The children thus had no opportunity to say whether they would "hear to it" or not.