and the warden remembers that you put in two notes--I"--he grew
quite pale--"I can't help thinking you maybe intended to put
in only ONE! "His voice broke, he tried to control it.
"The sum is so VERY large!" quavered he.

"I have given him BOTH bills, two hundred dollars!" thought Harry.
He sat down. He was accustomed to read men's faces, and plainly
as ever he had read, he could read the signs of distress and conflict
on the prosaic, dull features before him.

"I INTENDED to put in two bills," said he. Gilling gave
a little gasp--so little, only a quick ear could have caught it;
but Harry's ear is quick. He twisted one leg around the other,
a further sign of deliverance of mind.

"Well, sir, well, Mr. Lossing," he remarked,
clearing his throat, "I cannot express to you properly the--
the appreciation I have of your--your PRINCELY gift!"
(Harry changed a groan into a cough and tried to smile.)
"I would like to ask you, however, HOW you would like it to
be divided. There are a number of worthy causes: the furnishing
of the church, which is in charge of the Ladies' Aid Society;
they are very hard workers, the ladies of our church.
And there is the Altar Guild, which has the keeping
of the altar in order. They are mostly young girls,
and they used to wash my things--I mean the vestments"
(blushing)--"but they--they were so young they were not careful,
and my wife thought she had best wash the--vestments herself,
but she allowed them to laundry the other--ah, things."
There was the same discursiveness in his talk as in his sermon,