Poor Jacob!" "But how did it happen ?" asked Hilda.

"She says she was only three years when she--Oh, think of it, Nurse Lucy! It is too dreadful.

Tell me how it happened." "Don't ask me, my dear!" said Dame Hartley, sadly.

"Why should you hear anything so painful?
It would only haunt your mind as it haunted mine for years after.

The worst of it was, there was no need of it.