. He lifted the
little child, kissed her, and then, still carrying her, he held his
other hand out to his wife and turned towards the door.

"We can talk it over more comfortably at home," said he. "I am not a
very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have
given me credit for being."

Holmes and I followed them down to the lane, and my friend plucked at my
sleeve as we came out. "I think," said he, "that we shall be of more use
in London than in Norbury."

Not another word did he say of the case until late that night when he
was turning away, with his lighted candle, for his bedroom.

"Watson," said he, "if it should ever strike you that I am getting a
little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than
it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be
infinitely obliged to you."

_Illustrated Interviews._

No. XX.--DR. BARNARDO, F.R.C.S. Ed.

[Illustration: 'BABIES' CASTLE, HAWKHURST. _From a Photo. by Elliot &
Fry._]

When it is remembered that the Homes founded and governed by Dr.
Barnardo comprise fifty distinct institutions; that since the foundation
of the first Home, twenty-eight years ago, in Stepney, over 22,000 boys
and girls have been rescued from positions of almost indescribable
danger; that to-day five thousand orphans and destitute children,
constituting the largest family in the world, are being cared for,
trained, and put on a different footing to that of shoeless and
stockingless, it will be at once understood that a definite and
particular direction must be chosen in which to allow one's thoughts and
investigations to travel. I immediately select the babies--the little
ones of five years old and under; and it is possible that ere the last
words of this paper are written, the Doctor may have disappeared from
these pages, and we may find ourselves in fancy romping and playing with
the babes in the green fields--one day last summer.

There is no misjudging the character of Dr. Barnardo--there is no
misinterpreting his motives. Somewhat below the medium height, strong
and stoutly built, with an expression at times a little severe, but with
benevolent-looking eyes, which immediately scatter the lines of
severity: he at once impresses you as a man of immovable disposition and
intentions not to be cast aside. He sets his heart on having a thing
done. It _is_ done. He conceives some new departure of rescue work.
There is no rest for