Could he have had his way he would have pulled the building down, but it was not his, and when he suggested it to Arthur, as he sometimes did, the latter opposed it, saying latterly, since Jerry had been so much to him: 'No, no, Frank; let it stand.

I like it, because but for it Jerry might have perished with her mother, and I should not have had her with me.' So the Tramp House stood, and grew damper and mustier each year, as the moss and ivy gathered on the walls outside, and the dust and cobwebs gathered on the walls within.

These, however, Jerry was careful to brush away, for she had a play house in one corner, and a little work-bench and chair, and she often sat there alone and talked to herself, and the woman dead so long ago, and to others whose faces were dim and shadowy, but whom she had felt sure she had known.

Very frequently she went through the process of cleaning up, as she called it, and her object in stopping there now was, in part, to see if it did not need her care again.
'Oh, Mr.Tracy! are you here! How you scared me?
I thought it was a tramp!' she said, as he came toward her.
'Do you come here often ?' he asked, as he offered her his hand.
'Yes, pretty often.

I like it, because mother died here, and sometimes I feel as if she would make it known to me here who she was.