Leaving the children to entertain each other on the sidewalk they
enlarged the hole from which the new baby had crawled, and pushed their
way through it. On the ground behind the hedge, and hidden from the
sidewalk by its thick twigs lay a young woman, so pale that she
frightened the girls.
"Don't take the baby away. I'll feel better in a little while. She
crept off from me."
"How did you get here?" asked Ethel Brown.
"I came out from New York to look for work in the country. I felt so
sick I lay down here."
"Did you get any work?"
A slight movement of the head indicated that she had not. The Ethels
consulted each other by disturbed glances. There was no hospital
nearer than Glen Point, and indeed, the woman seemed so ill that they
did not see how she could reach the hospital even in the trolley.
As they stood silent and perplexed the honk of a motor roused the
almost unconscious woman.
"Is the baby in the street?" she inquired frantically.
Ethel Brown crushed her way through the hedge, and found that the
children were still on the sidewalk, but were so near its edge that the
driver of the car had tooted to warn them back.
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