coming down and I fell over them twice. Here, take it."

She thrust a warm, dampish letter into his hand as the train moved.

He leaned back in his corner and opened the letter. This is what he
read:--

"Dear Mr. We do not know your name.

Mother is ill and the doctor says to give her the things at the end
of the letter, but she says she can't aford it, and to get mutton
for us and she will have the broth. We do not know anybody here but
you, because Father is away and we do not know the address. Father
will pay you, or if he has lost all his money, or anything, Peter
will pay you when he is a man. We promise it on our honer. I.O.U.
for all the things Mother wants.

"sined Peter.

"Will you give the parsel to the Station Master, because of us not
knowing what train you come down by? Say it is for Peter that was
sorry about the coals and he will know all right.

"Roberta.
"Phyllis.
"Peter."

Then came the list of things the Doctor had ordered.

The old gentleman read it through once, and his eyebrows went up.