aps more,--a great
deal more,--I wanted to put my arms about you, True, and
give you a good hug, and tell you how noble and generous you
are, and how I wish I were more like you, for your sake.

"What a wonderful plan that is of Mr. Barrifield's! Do you
know, it quite startles me; it seems like some fairy tale.
And as for the figures, they fairly make me dizzy. Mr.
Barrifield must be a very remarkable man to conceive such an
extraordinary idea; and how fortunate for him that he has
such men as you and Van and Perny to help him! Between Barry
and Perny with their business and literary ability, and you
and Van to look after the pictures, I am sure you will get
out a beautiful paper, and one that ought to succeed. It
seems like magic that it could be made to do so without
great capital at the start, but, of course, Mr. Frisby did
it 'without a dollar,' so it is possible, and Barry's plan
certainly is plausible and fascinating. Then, too, if it
should not turn out exactly as planned, he can always get
those capitalists to come in, you know; and while I suppose
you would be obliged to take a very small share then, it
would be better than failure.

"You see, True, I have been thinking, as I said at the
start, and I am with you, of course, heart and soul, in
whatever you undertake; only, do you know, True, I can't
make myself very enthusiastic about it. I mean I don't feel
about it as I do about your work, and as I felt when you
wrote me that you had got into the big magazines, and had
been given a serial to illustrate by the greatest of them
all. I hardly slept a wink that night, I was so happy for
you and for myself and for everybody. I am glad of this,
too, but it is in a different way.

"I know it is hard to save when money is earned with one's
hands, for it comes little at a time, and if the paper
prospers it will be easier for you afterward. But, somehow,
premiums and showy offers in big type don't seem to fit in
with my thought of you, and the Bible premium especially
doesn't appeal to me entirely. I suppose it is all right,
and perhaps, as you say, a great many people will get Bibles
who never had them before; but to me there is something
almost sacrilegious in the thought of using the Bible as a
means of making the