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`` You must stop at once , '' he urged in a firm voice . `` Such warnings as that , '' pointing to the blood-stained handkerchief , `` are not to be trifled with . I shall send a physician to see you ; and I will talk with you again . '' At noon Mr. Curtis found that the woman who boarded Mr. Dodge could n't keep him while he was sick ; and arrangements were made at once to remove him to the chamber in Mrs. Taylor 's farm-house which Patrick Riley had left . The next day he was so much worse that his mother was sent for ; and thus an acquaintance commenced which continued for life . Mrs. Dodge was the widow of a clergyman . At her husband 's death she was left destitute ; and until Albert was able to labor for her support , she kept school , filling up every moment out of school hours , in sewing for the slop-shops .