[Tracy Park by Mary Jane Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookTracy Park CHAPTER XV 10/14
I have consulted with him, and he thinks as I do, that she should be cared for at our expense.
He says, further, that there is room on the Tracy lot; she is to be buried there. I shall attend to it at once, and the funeral will take place to-morrow morning at ten o'clock from this house.
What disposition will be made of the child I have not yet decided, but she will _not_ go to the poor-house.' 'Oh, Mr.Tracy,' Harold burst out, 'she is mine.
She is to live with grandma and me.
You will not take her from me--say you will not ?' '_Vill not_,' Jerry reiterated, imitating as well as she could Harold's last words. For a moment Mr.Tracy looked fixedly at the boy, pleading for a burden which would necessitate toil, and self-denial, and patience of no ordinary kind and never had he despised himself more than he did then, when, believing what he did believe, he said at last: 'I will talk with your grandmother, and see what arrangements we can make.
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