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'To say nothing of the indirect benefits I receive myself,' he added.

And, after a pause, she said: 'For myself, too, it's the best kind of holiday I could possibly have. To come down here into all this, straight from my waifs in London, is like coming into that Crack-land you have shown them. I wish—I wish I could introduce it all to my big sad world of unwashed urchins. They have so few chances.' A sudden flash of enthusiasm ran over her face like sunlight. 'Perhaps, when they come down here next week for a day's outing, we might try!—if you will help me, that is?' She looked up. Something in the simple words touched him; her singleness of aim stirred the depths in him.

He promised eagerly.

'When it's out,' she added presently, 'I'm going to give copies of your book of aventures to some of them. A good many will understand'

'You shall have as many as you can use,' he put in quickly, with a thrill of pleasure he hardly understood. 'I'm only too delighted to think they could be of any use—any real use, I mean.'