Up and down the street they looked while Elisabeth scraped acquaintance with the sudden arrival upon her path.
"It doesn't seem as if she could be far off."
In truth she was not far off, for as the girls wondered and exclaimed a weak voice made itself heard from the other side of the hedge.
"Don't take her away," it said.
Leaving the children to entertain each other on the sidewalk they enlarged the hole from which the new baby had crawled, and pushed their way through it. On the ground behind the hedge, and hidden from the sidewalk by its thick twigs lay a young woman, so pale that she frightened the girls.
"Don't take the baby away. I'll feel better in a little while. She crept off from me."
"How did you get here?" asked Ethel Brown.
"I came out from New York to look for work in the country. I felt so sick I lay down here."
"Did you get any work?"
A slight movement of the head indicated that she had not. The Ethels consulted each other by disturbed glances. There was no hospital nearer than Glen Point, and indeed, the woman seemed so ill that they did not see how she could reach the hospital even in the trolley.