"Oh no, not regular! This is extra! Work is over for to-day so we went to the golf links; then he lets his man take me while he bathes and dresses to go to his Joy Lady. Gee, I got to hurry or I'll make the car late; but I can talk with you all you will. I can send the car back and walk or hop a 'tricity-wagon." "Which is a street car?" queried the nurse. "Sure!" said Mickey. "Well go hop it!" she laughed. "I can't spare more time now, but I won't forget, Mickey; and if he comes I'll keep him till you get here, if I have to chain him." "You go to it!" cried Mickey. "And I'll begin praying that he comes soon, and I'll just pray and pray so long and so hard, the Lord will send him quick to get rid of being asked so constant. No I won't either! Well wouldn't that rattle your slats?" "What, Mickey?" asked the nurse. "Why don't you _see?_" cried Mickey. "No, I don't see," admitted the girl. "Well I do!" said Mickey. "What would be square about that? Why that would be asking the Lord to make maybe some other little girl so sick, the Carrel man would be sent for, so I'd get my chance for Lily. That ain't business! I wouldn't have the cheek! What would the Lord _think_ of me? He wouldn't come in a mile of _doing_ it. I wouldn't come in ten miles of having the nerve to ask him. I do get up against it 'til my head swims. And there is _winter_ coming, too!" The nurse put her arm around Mickey again, and gently propelled him toward the elevator. "Mickey," she said softly, her lips nipping his fair hair, "God doesn't give many of us your clear vision and your big heart. I'd have asked him that, with never a thought of who would have to be ill to bring Dr. Carrel here. But I'll tell you. You can pray _this_ with a clean conscience: you can ask God if the doctor _does_ come, to put it into his heart to hear you, and to examine Lily. That wouldn't be asking ill for anyone else so that you might profit by it. And dear laddie, don't worry about _winter_. This city is still taking care of its taxpayers. You do your best for Lily all summer, and when winter comes, if you're not fixed for it, I will see what your share is and you can have it in a stove that will burn warm a whole day, and lots of coal, _plenty_ of it. I know I can arrange that." "Gee, you're great!" he cried. "This is the biggest thing that ever happened to me! I see now what I can ask Him on the square; so it's _business_ and all right; and Mr. Bruce or Miss Leslie will loan me a car, and if you see about the stove and the coal the city has for me"--in came Mickey's royal flourish--"why dearest Nurse Lady, Lily is as good as walking right now! Gee! In my place would you tell her?"