ā€œI know, I know. But Jadwin isn’t the blue-nosed sort. And now see here, Laura, I want to tell you. J. ⁠—that’s what Charlie and I call Jadwin⁠— J. was talking to us the other day about supporting a ward in the Children’s Hospital for the children of his Sunday school that get hurt or sick. You see he has nearly eight hundred boys and girls in his school, and there’s not a week passes that he don’t hear of some one of them who has been hurt or taken sick. And he wants to start a ward at the Children’s Hospital, that can take care of them. He says he wants to get other people interested, too, and so he wants to start a contribution. He says he’ll double any amount that’s raised in the next six months⁠—that is, if there’s two thousand raised, he’ll make it four thousand; understand? And so Charlie and I and the Gretrys are going to get up an amateur play⁠—a charity affair⁠—and raise as much money as we can. J. thinks it’s a good idea, and⁠—here’s the point⁠—we were talking about it coming home in the carriage, and J.

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