"In your trust? In the boys' keeping?" she queried. "I don't quite understand."
Whereupon Horace told the story of the appeal to the honor of the school and the One Word on the master's chair.
The woman's face glowed with pride.
"I will help you," she said, impulsively, "I will come to the school."
Horace stiffened up.
"Pardon, Madame," he said, "but the master's chair is not empty."
The master's wife smiled at the lad's quick defense of his charge.
"I had forgotten," she said, "it is a trust, yes? Then I will not come. But perhaps, after school hours, if there are any of the younger children who need help in their lessons, they may come here? This house will always be open to them."
Courtesy of "The Graphic."