is different with me."

"You'll see it differently some day," said Mrs. Cable earnestly.

"I don't object to your helping the foundlings, Jane," said Cable,
"but I don't see why you have to be a nurse to do it. Other women
support such causes and not as nurses, either. It's--"

"It's my way, daddy, that's all," she said firmly.

"Then why, in the name of Heaven, were you so unkind as to keep
that poor boy over there alive when he might have died and ended
his misery? You nursed him back to life only to give him a wound
that cannot be healed. You would ruin his life, Jane. Is it fair?
Damn me, I'm uncouth and hard in many ways--I had a hard, unkind
beginning--but I really believe I've got more heart in me than you
have."

"David!" exclaimed his wife. Jane looked at the exasperated man in
surprise.

"Now here's what I intend you to do: you owe me something for the
love that I give to you; you owe Graydon something for keeping him
from dying. If you want to go into the nursing business, all right.
But I'm going to demand some of your devotion for my own sake before
that time comes. I've loved you all of your life--"

"And I've loved you, daddy," she gasped.

"And I'm going to ask you to begin your nursing career by attending