"I've given him everything!"

Doctor Lavendar was silent.

"He ought to come to us. He is ours; and he owes us—"

"Just what you've earned, Mary, just what you've earned. That's what children 'owe' their parents."

"Oh, what am I to do? What am I to do?"

"How much do you want him, Mary?"

"HEARTS DON'T ANSWER WHEN REASON WHISTLES TO THEM," HE SAID.

She was stammering with sobs. "It's all I want—it's my life—"

"Perhaps publicity would win him. He has a great respect for courage. So perhaps—"