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Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924

"Michael O'Halloran"

I saw and examined the deed of gift of the premises to the city. The
only thing she could do would be to buy it back, and it's torn up inside,
and will be in shape for opening any day now, I hear. The city needed a
Children's Hospital; to get a place like that free, in so beautiful and
convenient a location--and her old friends are furious at her for bringing
sickness and crooked bodies among them. No doubt they would welcome her
there, but they wouldn't welcome her anywhere else. She must have endowed
it liberally, no hospital in the city has a staff of the strength
announced for it."
"James, you are wandering!" she interrupted. "You started to tell me what
Miss Winton asked of you."
"That I bring Nellie here," he explained. "That I make her mistress of
this house. That I put myself and the boys in her hands again."
"Oh good Lord!" ejaculated Mrs. Winslow. "James, are you actually thinking
of _that?_ Mind, I don't care for myself. I have a home and all I want.
But for you and those boys, are you really contemplating it?"
"No!" he said.


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