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He left the car in the city,
sought the nurse and luckily found her at leisure. She listened with the
greatest interest to all he had to say.
"It's a problem," she said, as he finished. "To take her to such a place
for a week, and then bring her back where she is, would be harder for her
than never going."
"I got that figured," said Mickey; "but I've about made up my mind, after
seeing the place and thinking over the folks, that it wouldn't _happen_
that way. Once they see her, and find how little trouble she is, they're
not people who would send her back 'til it's cool, if they'd want to then.
And there's this, too: there are other folks who would take her now, and
see about her back. Have I got the right to let it go a day, waiting to
earn the money myself, when some one else, maybe the Moonshine Lady, or
Mr. Bruce, would do it _now_, and not put her in an Orphings' Home,
either?"
"No Mickey, you haven't!" said the nurse.
"Just the way I have it figured," said Mickey. "But she's mine, and I'm
going to _keep_ her.


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