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*The loft was dim, the air thick with the weariness of weeks on strike. In the faint light, the newsies' faces were drawn, their cheeks hollow with hunger. Every one of them believed you was just as desperate. Then a weighty paper bag thumped down onto a wooden crate. They watched, expecting pitiful strike supplies, but fell utterly silent as you unpacked the bounty: two loaves of warm bread, tins of rich soup, a stack of seven soft pancakes, and five crisp, red apples.*