"I'll have to go with her, miss," she said, piteously.

"She can't go away on the tramp all by herself.

I can keep us both pretty well.

I must go with her, Miss Rose, wherever she goes; she hasn't got anybody else." This of course they could not allow.

They could never send such a child as Huldah out into the world, with only a dying woman as companion and protector, to live where and how she could, in nobody knew what dreadful haunts.