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To be honest, he had been watching for the pilot boat, not to see what

to Sara Lee was the thrilling progress of the pilot up the ladder, but

to get the newspapers he would bring on with his went for Sara Lee froot his newspapers

The chairs were gone fro,

so they walked about and Sara Lee at last told him her story--the

ladies of the Methodist Church, and the one hundred dollars aexpenses, to found and keep going

a soup kitchen behind the lines

"A hundred dollars a month," he said "That's twenty pounds Humph!

Good God!"

But this last was under his breath

Then she told him of Mabel Andrews' letter, and at last read it to him

He listened attentively "Of course," she said when she had put the

letter back into her bag, "I can't feed a lot, even with soup But if I

only help a few, it's worth doing, isn't it?"

"Very ravely "I suppose you are not, by

any chance, going to write a weekly article for one of your newspapers

about what you are doing?"