n I
don't know what we shall do with all the money.

"I'll tell you, True--we'll build things. We'll build
hospitals and asylums and libraries, and first of all we'll
build a great place where those poor men who now get a cup
of coffee and a loaf of bread can get a good warm meal and
have a bed to sleep in afterward. And we'll build one like
it for poor women, too. And then, by and by, we'll build a
great, beautiful place where artists and writers, when they
get old, can live in ease and comfort, and not have anything
to pay unless they are able. Not in the way of charity, I
mean, but as the just reward that wealth owes to those who
have given their years and strength to make the world better
and happier. Only, wealth never understands and realizes its
debt. But we will, True, because we know, and Van and Perny
will help, and Barry, too. And then, when we have grown old,
perhaps we will go there to stay. I am not quite sure about
that, but it would be beautiful, I know, for it would be
like the houses we are going to have side by side, only on a
larger scale; and then, it would be in the country, where
there are green fields and fresh air and big trees and clear
brooks. We will have beautiful grounds reaching in every
direction, like those around Windsor Castle, that I once saw
when in England. And everybody will do as they please, and
read and write and paint what they like, or sit in the sun
and shade, and so drift out of life as gently as the brown
leaf falls and floats out to the eternal sea.

"I do not mean to grow poetic, True, but I have always
thought about such a place as that, and to me it has seemed
just as I have tried to make it appear to you. I know you
will understand, too, and your artist fancy will conceive
things of which I do not even dream. I never hoped that it
could be possible for me to realize this vision, though it
has always been very near my heart, and once I even spoke
about it to papa. But then, he isn't rich like that, and,
besides, our family is large and the boys have to be started
in life.

"I was perfectly crazy at first to tell papa about the 'cash
for names' plan, and should have done so if you hadn't
pledged me to solemn secrecy. Of course, I know how
dangerous it would be for any