"Yes. A little while after you were there."
Mr. Steel took a deep breath, as if his heart had commenced beating
more rapidly.
"I have not seen a happier man than the superintendent for a score
of weeks. If you had invested the ten thousand dollars for his
individual benefit, he could not have been half so well pleased."
"He seems like an excellent man, and one whose heart is in his
work," said Mr. Steel.
"He had, already, taken in ten poor little boys and girls on the
strength of your liberal donation. Ten children lifted out of want
and suffering, and placed under Christian guardianship! Just think
of it. My heart gave a leap for joy when he told me. It was well
done, my friend--well done!"
"And what of your good purpose, Mr. Erwin?" asked the other.
"Two little girls--babes almost," replied Mr. Erwin, in a lower
voice, that almost trembled with feeling, "were brought to me. As I
looked at them, the superintendent said: 'I heard of them two days
ago. Their wretched mother had just died, and, in dying, had given
them to a vicious companion. Hunger, cold, debasement, suffering,
crime, were in the way before them; and but for your timely aid, I
should have had no power to intervene. But, you gave the means of
rescue, and here they are, innocent as yet, and out of danger from
the wolf.' In all my life, my friend, there has not been given a
moment of sincerer pleasure.
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