It is but another one of the things that have made this home so dear to me.

I told Father Cruse what brought me to New York, so that he could help me find her, and he has been more than kind.

Many a night we have tramped the streets together, or have searched haunts that either she, or the man who ruined her, might frequent, or where we should meet persons who had seen them, but so far, you are the only person who has brought us near to each other.
"I tell you now because it is better that you and I should understand each other before I sail, and because, too, you are a big, brave, true-hearted woman who can and will understand.

You may not think it, but you have been a revelation to me, Mrs.Cleary--you and this home--and the neighborhood, in fact, peopled with clean, wholesome men and women.

It has been a great lesson to me and a marvellous contrast to what had surrounded me at home.