Poor chap! Well, he's rid of his sufferin's at last.

Tell me about it, if you can without bringin' all the trouble back too plain." So she told him of her brother's sickness and death, of having to give up the old home, and, finally, of her acceptance of the housekeeper's position.

He listened, at first with sympathy and then with suppressed indignation.
"By the jumpin' Moses!" he exclaimed.

"And Elkanah was goin' to turn you out of house and home.

The mean, pompous old--" "Hush! hush! he's in there with Mr.Ellery." "Who?
Elkanah ?" "Yes; they're in the study." "By the jumpin'-- Let me talk to him for a few minutes.