They thanked Mr. Wood for his plain
speaking in telling them of their relative's misdeeds, and said that
from all they knew of Mr. Barron's past conduct, his influence would be
for evil and not for good, in any place that he choose to live in. They
were having their money sent from Boston to Mr. Wood, and they wished
him to expend it in the way he thought best fitted to counteract the
evil effects of their namesake's doings in Riverdale.
When this money came, it amounted to some hundreds of dollars. Mr. Wood
would have nothing to do with it. He handed it over to the Band of
Mercy, and they formed what they called the "Barron Fund," which they
drew upon when they wanted money for buying and circulating humane
literature. Mrs. Wood said that the fund was being added to, and the
children were sending all over the State leaflets and little books which
preached the gospel of kindness to God's lower creation. A stranger
picking one of them up, and seeing the name of the wicked Englishman
printed on the title-page, would think that he was a friend and
benefactor to the Riverdale people--the very opposite of what he gloried
in being.
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