But Fanny would not hear of it, and he acquiesced.
Now--"This child must be sent away off somewhere, and never be heard of again," he said to himself.

"If it'd been a boy, perhaps it might have got along.

But a girl---- "There's nothing can be done to make things right for a girl that's got no father and no name." The subject did not come up between him and his wife until about a week after Lorella's funeral.

But he was thinking of nothing else.

At his big grocery store--wholesale and retail--he sat morosely in his office, brooding over the disgrace and the danger of deeper disgrace--for he saw what a hold the baby already had upon his wife.