She was telling Donald Whiting where to find Peter's articles, and what a fine man he was, and that he had promised to think how he could help with their plan to make of Donald a better scholar than was Oka Sayye.
"Well, I call that mighty decent of a stranger," said Donald.
"But he is scarcely more of a stranger than I am," answered Linda.

"He is a writer.

He is interested in humanity.

It's the business of every man in this world to reach out and help every boy with whom he comes in contact into the biggest, finest manhood possible.

He only knows that you're a boy tackling a big job that means much to every white boy to have you succeed with, and for that reason he's just as interested as I am.