CHAPTER XIII.
"LABOR--SERVICE OR ACT."-- AGE, 25.
Mother's will left everything to trustees, for the use of Elizabeth and myself.

She had wished my husband to join her in a suit for the recovery of father's city property, and he refused, but signed a deed with me conveying my interest to her.

This claim she also willed to her trustees for my use.

He felt himself wronged and became angry, but had one remedy.

Being the owner of my person and services, he had a right to wages for the time spent in nursing mother, and would file his claim against her executors.
I do not know why I should have been so utterly overwhelmed by this proposal to execute a law passed by Christian legislators for the government of Christian people--a law which had never been questioned by any nation, or state, or church, and was in full force all over the world.