"It's a five apiece for Hank's woman." "Yes," said Thorpe.
The men were earning from twenty to thirty dollars a month.

They had, most of them, never seen Hank Paul before this autumn.

He had not, mainly because of his modest disposition, enjoyed any extraordinary degree of popularity.

Yet these strangers cheerfully, as a matter of course, gave up the proceeds of a week's hard work, and that without expecting the slightest personal credit.

The money was sent "from the boys." Thorpe later read a heart-broken letter of thanks to the unknown benefactors.