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CHAPTER II.
GREY JERROLD.

Just a year after the grand wedding at Grey's Park, there was born to
Burton and Geraldine a little boy, so small and frail and puny, that
much solicitude would have been felt for him had there not been a
greater anxiety for the young mother, who went so far down toward the
river of death that every other thought was lost in the great fear for
her. Then the two sisters, Hannah and Lucy, came, the latter giving all
her time to Geraldine, and the former devoting herself to the feeble
little child, whose constant wail so disturbed the mother that she
begged them to take it away where she could not hear it cry, it made her
so nervous.
Geraldine did not like children, and she seemed to care so little for
her baby that Hannah, who had loved it with her whole soul the moment
she took it in her arms and felt its soft cheek against her own, said to
her brother one day:
"I must go home to-morrow, but let me take baby with me. His crying
disturbs your wife, who hears him however far he may be from her room.


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