'I heard her talking to the cook.

Where would she go if she did not go to the poor-house?
Who would take care of her ?' 'I!' Harold answered, and to Miss Howard he seemed to grow older a dozen years, as he stood there with his arms folded and the light of a brave manhood in his brown eyes.

'I shall take care of her.

She will live with grandmother and me.

I found her, and she is mine.' ''Ess, 'ess, 'ess,' came from Jerry, as she swung one little foot back and forth and looked confidingly at her champion.
'_You_ take care of her!' Tom sneered, with that supercilious air he always assumed toward those he considered his inferiors.