Her father was with him, and between them sat a woman.

She recognized the woman at once.

She was a trained nurse who lived in Edgham.

"They have got Miss Bell," she thought; "mother must be awful sick." She knew that Miss Bell's wages were twenty-five dollars a week, and that her father would not have called her in except in an extreme case.

She watched her father help out the woman, who was stout and middle-aged, and much larger than he.