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"I hadn't thought of it Do you think I should?"

Quite unexpectedly Mr Travers patted her shoulder

"My dear child," he said, "now and then I find somebody who helps to

revive my faith in human nature Thank you"

Sara Lee did not understand The touch on the shoulder had made her

think suddenly of Uncle Jahtened," she said in a small voice

"Twenty pounds!" repeated Mr Travers to himself "Twenty pounds!"

And aloud: "Of course you speak French?"

"Very little I've had six lessons, and I can count--some"

The sense of unreality which the twenty pounds had roused in Mr Travers'

cautious British reat human desire to be useful in her own s chance this frail bit of a girl was taking! And

he noticed now so that had escaped hie of the spirit rather than of the body, that was in the very

poise of her head

"I' "I have a phrase

book And a hungry man, maybe sick or wounded, can understand a bowl of