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Updated: June 29, 2025
The little ragamuffins wouldn't any of them tell me the way out, not even Dinney. I wouldn't have believed it of Dinney!" Aunt Em's face smiled down at the girl among the tumbled pillows. "Poor dear! You have so many troubles!" Aunt Em sympathized in gentle irony. Gloria sat up straight. "You're making fun! Well, I don't suppose I can complain.
Instantly there came before him some little red shoes for Hunkie, and some stockings, and maybe a little red cap. But there was not time to go further into the matter as to what five dollars might stand for. Gloria's hand was grasping his shoulders with a firm grip. "Will you find it out, Dinney? Will you? Will you come to me straight with the name and to nobody else?"
I ought to have thought how it would make you feel! Come with me up to Rose's room. That's the quietest place around here. It's a little haven to us all. She's got Dinney's baby with her now. Since the mother died she's about adopted it. But Dinney pays for it. Dinney's a brave one!"
"I've got it, Miss Gloria!" he said, coming panting up the steps. "I've got it! I struck the very man and he told me. He wrote it down for me. It belongs to an estate. Here it is." Gloria looked down at the card that bore a few lines indifferently traced. But what her eyes met caused the color to drift from her face. "Are you sure, Dinney?" she said sharply to the boy. "Are you sure? Quick!"
Her own hair was in a braid, and she flushed still more when, glancing into a little mirror, she looked from her face to Gloria's. She had put her own hair down into a braid to be like the girl Dinney had told of. But how different they were! Instantly she realized that hers was a face without round, girlish curves. But she did not speak of this.
"I don't suppose you know it, but Uncle Em's keeping a lot of money for me when I get of age. I'm seventeen now. I never asked how much money I'll have, but it's a lot, I'm sure of that. What I've been planning out in my mind is to use some of that money in building decent houses for Dinney and Straps, and some of the rest you are working for. I can have the old ones torn down.
The two were now walking along in a companionable way back in the direction Gloria had come. "Dinney, if you find out who owns that house I will buy it. I've got money; Uncle Em says I have. I will buy it and we'll fix it up good." Dinney's face was aglow, his eyes shone, his breath was drawn sharp and quick.
But if not heads, I suppose they might have hearts, and the hearts might ache, the way mine does every time I think of those houses and Straps and Dinney and Hunkie and the girl with eyes like mine. Yes, I'll tell you. I mean to tear down some of those houses Dinney's, at any rate. Now, go outdoors and laugh!
Somebody ought to climb up and print an 'Un' before it, and even that wouldn't be bad enough! "I wish I knew who Rose is. All I do know is that you taught her to be good to Hunkie Dinney said so. He said that Rosy lived across the hall, and that she had eyes like mine!
A faintness was seizing her. "Sure," answered the boy. The girl laid a trembling hand upon the door. "I will get the money for you, Dinney, when I know you are dead right." The voice was not the voice Dinney knew. Looking at the girl, he saw that tears had sprung to her eyes. She was fumbling blindly with the latch-key.
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