I'm goin' to get Papa Jack to write a piece about you and send it to the _Courier-Journal_.
How would you like to have yo' name come out in a big American newspapah ?" Several lonely days followed for the Little Colonel.

Either her father or mother was constantly with the Major, and sometimes both.

They were waiting for his niece to come from Zuerich and take him back with her to a hospital where he could have better care than in the little inn in Zug.
It greatly worried the old man that he should be the cause of disarranging their plans and delaying their journey.

He urged them to go on and leave him, but they would not consent.

Sometimes the Little Colonel slipped into the room with a bunch of Alpine roses or a cluster of edelweiss that she had bought from some peasant.