But I did n't make it . Robert really made every cent of my money . If it had n't been for him I 'd have been a poor man to-day , or behind prison bars , as are the other men who went into that deal when I backed out . I 've got a son here . I hope he 'll be as clever as his Uncle Malcolm ; but I hope , still more earnestly , that he 'll be as good and honorable a man as his Uncle Robert . '' By this time Robert 's head was bent again , and his face buried in his hands . `` My turn next , '' said James . `` I have n't much to say -- only this . After mother died I took typhoid fever . Here I was with no one to wait on me . Robert came and nursed me . He was the most faithful , tender , gentle nurse ever a man had . The doctor said Robert saved my life . I do n't suppose any of the rest of us here can say we have saved a life . '' Edith wiped away her tears and sprang up impulsively . `` Years ago , '' she said , `` there was a poor , ambitious girl who had a voice . She wanted a musical education and her only apparent chance of obtaining it was to get a teacher 's certificate and earn money enough to have her voice trained . She studied hard , but her brains , in mathematics at least , were n't as good as her voice , and the time was short . She failed . She was lost in disappointment and despair , for that was the last year in which it was possible to obtain a teacher 's certificate without attending Queen 's Academy , and she could not afford that .
Then her oldest brother came XXXXX her and told her he could spare enough money to send her to the conservatory of music in Halifax for a year .
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