"This young fool had to have a specialist for his wife when the baby came. And those fellows don't work for nothing, and have to have cash on the nail. And with the specialist came the day and night nurses and all that folderol. They did not live here then, I can assure you. Nor did I attend the woman and her child until after they did come here. "At first, I presume, people made it easy for him to go into debt because of his father's name. But when he had spent all he had, and gone in as deep as he could to make her and the baby comfortable, the girl finally awoke to the situation. She is a good deal of a woman, frail as she appears. She insisted in curtailing and cutting down expenses. Oh, they are both as square as can be; but she has the push and determination, after all. "They are paying their debts now. She insists on it. They do not owe me anything--not a penny. I would not take money for this call. I am no specialist," said the medical practitioner, bitterly. "But I feel it my duty to talk straight out to the young man. If his wife and baby remain here it will be the undertaker, not the doctor, who will be called!" "I'm going to tell him a thing or two myself," promised Mr. Cameron huskily. But when Joe Bassett ran up the narrow stairway and burst into the crowded kitchen to face the doctor and Carolyn's father, neither of those gentlemen could really scold the young fellow. That he was very, very anxious about his wife and child was plainly shown in his countenance and his manner. "Is she--is she--" "She's better," said the doctor briskly. "For the time being. Your friends here--especially the lady--have done all they can for your wife. A doctor can't do much, Mr. Bassett. I have told Mrs. Bassett so before. The city is no place for her and your baby through the hot weather. The summer is only beginning. Find some way of getting them out of this place--and at once. That is all I can tell you. You are likely to lose them both if you do not take this advice." "That advice is harder to take, Doctor, than your medicine," said Bassett faintly. "I will do my best--" "And why did you not tell me?" demanded Carolyn's father, as the busy medical man made off. "My wife suspected who Carolyn's 'pale lady' was. But I did not dream-- "See here, Bassett! Something must be done about this at once. Your wife and baby must get out of here. It is evident she is not used to the city's heat, and most certainly she is not used to such a locality and such a house as _this_." "Don't you suppose I know all that?" groaned the young man. "But fixed as we are--" "Are you in debt?" demanded Mr. Cameron bluntly. "Yes." "And have you worried about the bills you owe?" "Of course." "Let the other fellow do the worrying," was Mr. Cameron's iconoclastic declaration. "To sacrifice your wife and child for the sake of paying debts is nothing less than a crime." "But she is so very anxious for us to pay those bills."