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Again Auntie Sue seemed to hesitate; then "Her name is Miss Betty Jo Williams," and as she spoke the old teacher looked straight at Brian. "A perfectly good name," Brian returned; "but I never heard of her before." Judy's black eyes, with their stealthy, oblique look, were now watchfully fixed on Auntie Sue. "She is the orphan-niece of one of my old pupils," Auntie Sue continued.
"The Padre came last night to demand the child, but we refused to give him up: he said he intended clothing and educating the boy free of charge; yet I knew better, for he refused to baptize Madame Berara's orphan-niece without the customary fee, though he well knew she could ill afford it, and was compelled to sell her last cow to make up the requisite sum.
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