"Well?" demanded Douglas.
Mickey laughed outright. Then he sobered suddenly and spoke gravely,
directly to Miss Winton.
"Thank you for thinking of it, and planning for her," he said. "I was
afraid you would."
"Thank me for something you feared I would do! Mickey, aren't you getting
things mixed?"
"Thank you for thinking of Lily and wanting to help her," explained
Mickey, "but she doesn't need you. She's mine and I'm going to keep her;
so what I can do for her will have to be enough, until I can do better."
"I see," said Leslie. "But suppose that she should have attention at once,
that you can't give her, and I can?"
"Then I'd be forced to let you, even if it took her from me," agreed
Mickey. "But thank the Lord, things ain't that way. I didn't take my say-
so for it; I went to the head nurse of the Star of Hope; she's gone to the
new Elizabeth Home now; she loves to nurse children best. All the time
from the first day she's told me how, and showed me, so Lily has been
taken care of right, you needn't worry about that.
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