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"Not like her!" was his mental comment. "I can understand how that place
would become intolerable to her; but I never knew her to give a dollar to
the suffering. Now she makes a princely gift, not because she is generous,
but because the house has become unbearable; and as usual, with no thought
of any one save herself. If the city dares accept, how her millionaire
neighbours will rage at disease and sickness being brought into the finest
residence district! Probably the city will be compelled to sell it and
build somewhere else. But there is something fitting in the reparation of
turning a building that has been a place of torture to children, into one
of healing. It proves that she has a realizing sense."
He glanced around the bright, cheerful breakfast room, with its carefully
set, flower-decorated table, at his sister at its head, at a son on either
hand, at a pleasant-faced young tutor on one side, and his Little Brother
on the other; for so had James Minturn ordered his household.
Mrs.


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