He had been planning a costume
ball for a couple of months later, an event which would keep the van
Tuiver name in condition, and would mean that he and other people
would spend many hundreds of thousands of dollars. As we rode home
in the roaring Subway, Sylvia sat beside me, erect and tense, saying
that if the ball were given, it would be without the presence of the
hostess.
I struck while the iron was hot, and got her permission to put her
name upon our committee list. She said, moreover, that she would get
some free time, and be more than a mere name to us. What were the
duties of a member of our committee?
"First," I said, "to know the facts about child-labour, as you have
seen them to-day, and second, to help other people to know."
"And how is that to be done?"
"Well, for instance, there is that hearing before the legislative
committee. You remember I suggested that you appear."
"Yes," she said in a low voice. I could almost hear the words that
were in her mind: "What would _he_ say?"
25. Sylvia's name went upon our letter-heads and other literature,
and almost at once things began to happen. In a day or two there
came a reporter, saying he had noticed her name.
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