12/15 He left me to defend you from the enemy--left his wife and children to starve and suffer, for the purpose of aiding in that holy cause we are now engaged in conflict for. For his sake, if for no other, give me the means of saving my child." He did not reply to her passionate words, but simply rang a bell that stood on the table before which he was seated. His clerk answered the summons. Gootness," he continued, speaking to himself, "I pelieve te voman is mat." "Save yourself the trouble," she replied, "I will leave. |