"I hope you will. I should feel comfortabler. Because I don't see how we can ever pay you back; at any rate, not for a long time. We should have to wait until I'm old enough to earn money, or until Charlie is. And I'm four years older." Fox smiled at the idea of waiting for Charlie. But Sally went on. "And there's another thing. There's Doctor Galen." "Oh, so the doctor's the other thing. I'll tell him." "The money that we have to pay him is the other thing." Sally was very earnest. "Will it be much, do you think?" "Sally, don't you worry. I asked the doctor just that question and he told me I had better wait until he sent his bill. He hasn't sent it yet." "Well--will it be as much as a hundred dollars?" "It is possible that it may be as much as that." "Oh, will it be more?" Sally was distressed. When should she be able to save--even to earn a hundred dollars. "We can't ever pay it, Fox; not for years and years." Again Fox told her not to worry. She did not seem to hear him. She was following her thought. "And, Fox, if you have to pay it, we shall owe you an awful lot of money. Have--have you got money enough?" Fox Sanderson did not have an "awful lot" of money. That very question had been giving him some anxiety. But he would not let Sally suspect it. "I guess I'll be able to manage, Sally." "I hope so. And I've been thinking, Fox, that I ought to help." "Why, Sally, you do help. Just think of the things you do, every day, helping about your mother, and about the house." "Yes," she returned, "but I mean about earning money. Those things don't earn money. Couldn't I learn typewriting and go into somebody's office? Or couldn't I teach? Do you have to know a lot of things, to teach, Fox?" Fox smiled. "Some teachers that I have known," he answered, "haven't known such an awful lot of things. But if you really want to teach, Sally, you ought to be trained for it. At least," he added, more to himself than to Sally, "that is the popular opinion." Again Sally was distressed. "Do you have to go to college, Fox?" "Well," answered Fox, smiling, "not exactly, but something of the sort. There's a normal school or the training school for teachers, or whatever they call it." "Oh, dear!" Sally wailed. "Everything takes so long! I wanted to do something right away. Can't you think of anything, Fox?" "Not right off the bat. I'll see what thoughts I can raise on that subject. But if I don't think of anything, would you like to plan to be a teacher, Sally?" "If it would help mother, I would. If that's the best thing we can think of. I'd do anything to help mother. I'd go out scrubbing or I'd sell papers or--or anything." "Bless your heart!" Fox exclaimed under his breath. "Bless your dear heart, Sally! You needn't go out scrubbing or washing dishes or selling papers or anything of the kind. You can do better than that. And your mother is likely to need your help about as much when you are fitted for teaching as she does now."