"I will soon have finished, mother," he answered, with a smile, "and
then I will read it."
His pen scratched away for a few minutes, and then he held up the sheet
and read this:
"TO THE GIRL WITH THE BROKEN LEG:--I hope you will not fret or worry
too much over your misfortune, because it will not be many days
before you are out again, and in a short time be well and strong
as ever. You have many happy days before you, when you can romp and
run in the bright sunshine; and you must think of those days and not
of the present. I will write to you again, if you say so.
"Your friend,
"AMOS FRANKLIN."
Mrs. Franklin listened to the reading of this letter with an amazed
look.
"I don't understand it," she said. "Who is this girl, and where did you
hear about the accident?"
"I don't know her name, or who she is," replied Amos, with a quiet
laugh. "But I know that in the three or four hundred patients in the big
hospital there _must_ be one girl with a broken leg, and they will give
it to her, and it will make her feel glad."
Mrs.
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