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"I don't want you to get anything. I want you to go to father and mother for somthing." "I'd stand a fine chance to get it!" I said. "Unless it's Calomel or advice." Although not suspicous by nature, I now looked at her and saw why I had recieved the pink hoze. It was not kindness. It was bribery! "It's this," she explained. "The house we had last year at the seashore is emty and we can have it.
My finantial condition was not improved this morning, father having not returned. But I knew that I must see the Play, as mentioned above, even if it became necesary to borow from Hannah. At last, seeing no other way, I tried this, but failed. "What for?" she said, in a suspicous way. "I need it terrably, Hannah," I said. "You'd ought to get it from your mother, then, Miss Barbara.
Did I know the Place? Had I not, as a child, rolled and even turned summersalts down that hill? Was it not on my very ancestrial acres? It was, indeed. Although suspicous at once, because of no address but a pine tree, I said nothing, except merely: "Fifty cents." "Suppose we fix it like this," he suggested.
As a matter of fact, I have reasons to think it will fall in with er plans of your own." Ye gods! Was I thus being asked to compound a felony? Or did he not think I belonged to my own Familey, but to some other of the same name, and was therfore not suspicous. "Here's what I want," he went on in a smooth manner. "And there's Twenty-five dollars in it for you.
"I think you know," she rejoined, in a suspicous tone. "And that you should assist in such a thing, Miss Bab, is a great Surprize to me. I have considered you flitey, but nothing more." She then slapped a cup custard down in front of me and went away, leaving me very nervous.
"If I didn't know you, Bab," she observed, "I would say that you are rouged." I became very stiff and distant at that. For Jane, although my best friend, had no right to be suspicous of me. "How do I look changed?" I demanded. "I don't know. You Bab, I beleive you are up to some mischeif!" "Mischeif?" "You don't need to pretend to me," she went on, looking into my very soul. "I have eyes.
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