[Adventures and Letters by Richard Harding Davis]@TWC D-Link bookAdventures and Letters CHAPTER XIX 98/154
As I was going, I said, "I'll be back tomorrow to get some facts and I'll write a story about what you're doing." This is the part that is embarrassing to write, but you will understand.
They gave a cheer and a yell just as though I had said, "Peace is declared" or "I will give you Carnegie's fortune." And they danced around, and shook hands, and Whitney Warren, who is at the head of it, all but cried.
Later, he told me the letter I had written for his wife's fund for orphans by the war had brought in $5000, that was why they were so pleased.
So we, you and I, will try to look at it that way, and try to believe that from this separation, which is cruel for us, others may get some benefit.
Tomorrow, I am to be received at the Elysee by the President, and I am going to try to make him say something that will draw money from America for the French hospitals.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|