The matron was good to us, and considering we were all homeless waifs we fared very well." "And the letter ?" asked Grace.
"It was from my father to my mother, giving all the directions for our journey west.

With it had been enclosed a money order for four hundred dollars, which my mother had evidently cashed.

I still have the letter.
"Then a man and his wife took me.

They were good to me and sent me to school.

I studied hard and finished high school when I was seventeen.
Then I won a scholarship of one hundred dollars a year.