:11:02
The real blow was those mining stocks
we'd counted on,
:11:05
the ones George Ferguson
got your father to buy.
:11:07
They're worthless. Not worth the paper
they're written on, Mr. Manson told me.
:11:12
Oh, well, that isn't so bad.
:11:14
We're just in reduced circumstances.
:11:17
I'll be very happy to beg.
:11:20
I saw a beggar once
and he had a tin cup full of money.
:11:23
Things won't be so very different.
:11:26
I'm afraid they will in a way.
:11:28
You see, counting everything,
we have exactly $50 a month to live on,
:11:32
so we can't even afford to move
to the little house we were going to.
:11:36
We can't afford
that horrible little house?
:11:40
Oh, Mother, that's wonderful!
:11:43
Oh, Gilly!
:11:46
What ails her?
:11:48
- Mother, this came today. This.
- What is it?
:11:51
Mother, you remember after father...
:11:55
That evening when we all tried
to make ourselves feel better
:11:58
by talking about things
that had been fun,
:12:00
and the best thing we thought of
was that time in Maine.
:12:03
- And we saw the yellow house in Beulah.
- Yes!
:12:06
And we peered in through the windows,
and wasn't it beautiful?
:12:09
- And nobody lived there.
- Hey, that was years ago.
:12:12
- You're wild.
- I remember it.
:12:14
- You weren't even born.
- Oh, stop interrupting.
:12:17
- Your entire lives are about to change.
- Go on, Nancy.
:12:21
Well, Mother, a couple of weeks ago,
:12:22
I decided that I'd try to find out
about that house.
:12:25
So I wrote to the postmaster in Beulah,
and he answered.
:12:29
His name is Ossian Popham.
Isn't it a beautiful name?
:12:32
Anyway, he's the agent for Mr. Hamilton,
who owns the house,
:12:35
who's miles away in China or somewhere.
:12:38
Probably an old missionary
or remittance man in disgrace or...
:12:41
- Could I see Mr. Popham's letter?
- It's all right, Mother. I...
:12:44
- Nancy...
- Well...
:12:48
"The pitiful plight of your good self
and your little ones..."
:12:52
Oh, Mother, read the last page.
:12:54
"Beulah is brimming over
with fresh milk for your baby boy..."
:12:59
Who's a baby?