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"Yes, if you'll do something
I'm going to ask you."
Peter pocketed the four. "That is a bargain," he said, with a brashness
simply disgraceful in a good business man. "Now, what is it?"
"Miss De Voe told me long ago about your savings-bank fund for helping
the poor people. Now that I have come into my money, I want to do what
she does. Give a thousand dollars a year to it--and then you are to tell
me just what you do with it."
"Of course I'm bound to take it, if you insist. But it won't do any
good. Even Miss De Voe has stopped giving now, and I haven't added
anything to it for over five years."
"Why is that?"
"You see, I began by loaning the fund to people who were in trouble, or
who could be boosted a little by help, and for three or four years, I
found the money went pretty fast. But by that time people began to pay
it back, with interest often, and there has hardly been a case when it
hasn't been repaid. So what with Miss De Voe's contributions, and the
return of the money, I really have more than I can properly use already.


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