“Let me see your arms.”
“They’re all right–” She tried to put 125them behind her as she spoke, but he drew them forward. A network of blisters covered them almost to the shoulders.
“Oh, Lou! Lou!” he murmured brokenly. “What won’t you do next?”
She smiled faintly.
“You said I’d do anything once, but I’ve done this lots of times before─”
“Well, well, good people! What’s going on here?” A kindly voice sounded from the doorway, and the woman turned with a little cry.
“Oh, Dr. Blair, she saved the baby! Put him down in that scalding water and held him right there with her hands, and she’s burned herself something terrible, but she saved him! I never saw a braver─”
“Let me see.”
The doctor examined the baby with professional gravity and then looked up.
“I should say you did save him, young woman! I couldn’t have done better for him myself! Now let me have a look at those arms of yours.”