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"Now, Laury, you know J'rome gave Minnie somethin' that helped her, and she seemed every mite as sick as the baby," her husband said, in a softer voice. But she turned her hopeless eyes again upon the little, squalid, quivering thing in her lap, and paid no more heed to him. She let Jerome examine the child, with a strange apathy.
Both factions invaded Jerome, and while neither broached the matter directly, strove by indirect and sly methods to ascertain his mind. "S'pose ye'll quit work now, J'rome; s'prised to see ye here this mornin'," said one. "When ye goin' to run for Congress, J'rome?" asked another.
Then she raised to his a worn face, with the piteous downward lines of old tears at mouth and eyes, and a rasped red, as of tears and frost, on thin cheeks. "That money is goin' to save my little home for me; I didn't know but I'd got to go on the town. God bless you, J'rome," she whispered, quaveringly. "The Colonel's the one to be thanked," Jerome said.
"I come under that agreement, don't I?" she asked, anxiously. "They told me that lone women without anybody to support 'em came under it." "Yes, you do, Miss Patch." "Oh, God bless you, God bless you, J'rome Edwards!" she cried, with a fervor strange upon a New England tongue. "Colonel Lamson is the one to have the thanks and the credit," Jerome repeated, pushing gently past her. His face was hot.
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