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 *templating. Do you know I think you are just the person I wanted to meet this morning?"

"Why?" she asked, indifferently.

"Because you can do a great kindness as well as give pleasure to some one who is in need of both, if you will?"

"You want me to help some one who is in distress?"

"I do. Will you?"

"How much does the person need?"

"Your presence would be more good than any service you could render."

"Then I will go and get my husband to accompany us. He is charitable, and likes to do these things with me."

"I have just come from his studio; he is very busy now, and I think he would prefer not being interrupted. I have been down all the morning giving a few criticisms on that 'Seaweed Gatherer.' That is truly a work of art. But surely you will not refuse me that friendly service."

"Where would you have me go, and whom to see?"

"A young girl who is dying without a kind word."

"A woman—has she no friends or means?".

"I am the only friend she has, the pure, noble, unfortunate," he said, aiming at tenderness.