"It was a wet morning, after a rain, and the pavement was slippery.

Mr.
Moriarty, Annie's father, was not working that day--they were making some repairs at the factory where he is employed, I believe--and he had gone out to do the family marketing.

He was crossing the street when an automobile, recklessly driven, so everyone says, drove directly down on him.

He tried to jump out of the way and succeeded--otherwise he might have been killed; but he fell and broke his hip.

He is an old man, and the case is serious." "Dear! dear! you don't tell me! Poor old chap! The auto feller--did he help?
Seems to me he ought to be the one to be spendin' the money.