"Very well, I'll ask him, if you think we've got to." "That matter's settled then," Mrs.Adams said.

"I'll go telephone Malena, and then I'll tell your father about it." But when she went back to her husband, she found him in an excited state of mind, and Walter standing before him in the darkness.

Adams was almost shouting, so great was his vehemence.
"Hush, hush!" his wife implored, as she came near them.

"They'll hear you out on the front porch!" "I don't care who hears me," Adams said, harshly, though he tempered his loudness.

"Do you want to know what this boy's asking me for?
I thought he'd maybe come to tell me he'd got a little sense in his head at last, and a little decency about what's due his family! I thought he was going to ask me to take him into my plant.