were no round, rosy-cheeked children in his silent home to kiss them
away, they stayed and grew deeper each day. He half smiled, however, as
he picked up the Greenaway envelope and curiously broke the seal. This
is what he read:

"DEAR BOBBY'S GRANDFATHER,

"We live next door to Bobby, who is quite often a nice boy, though
he wishes us to say always, and we are sorry to learn that you are
losing change money, for your sake, and for fear you'll go on and
lose ours, Grandmother Van Stark's and the Home's. Ours doesn't
matter so much as the others, for we have $9.00 left of our
birthday money, and it's lasted so long that it will prob'ly go on
lasting, specially if we forget it, or unless we buy more babies,
which we shan't do now because of not being able; but dear
grandmother without money would be awful, and the Home not to have
money for the poor little city children that are sick would be
awful, too. Please, please don't lose that, and we will pray for
you and love you hard all the days of our life. Amen.

"As there is no more paper in our boxes on account of spoiling so
much we will say good-bye.

"ETHELWYN, BETH, NAN, and BOBBY.

"P.S.--The first one she wrote it.

"P.S.--My mother said because she had faith in you was why you have
our money, and so have we."