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Updated: June 14, 2025
"But he'll find out youse got that gold coin. He's foxy," said the shrewd child. Janice drew forth her purse. "Let me have that five dollar gold piece," she said to Mrs. Narnay. "I'll give you five one dollar bills for it. You won't have to show but one of the bills at a time, that is sure." "That's a good idea, Miss," said the woman hopefully.
They talked of other things, too, and it was the appearance of Jim Narnay weaving a crooked trail across High Street toward the rear of the Inn that brought back to the girl's mind the weight of new trouble that had settled upon it. "Oh, dear! there's that poor creature," murmured Janice. "And I haven't been to see how his family is." "Who Jim Narnay's family?" asked Nelson. "Yes."
'I never, I don't, I can't'! What sort of talk is that?" "There's nothing funny about it," his cousin said sternly. "I want to know if you would mock at that poor man on the street?" "At Narnay?" "Yes." "Why not?" demanded Marty. "He's only an old drunk. And he is great fun." "He he is disgusting! He is horrid!" cried the girl earnestly.
"I never before went back on a pal; but you've been mighty good to me an' mine, Miss Janice, and and I'm goin' to tell." Nelson could not speak. Janice, however, wanted to cry aloud in her delight. "I knew you could explain it all, Mr. Narnay, but I didn't know that you would," she said. "You knowed I could tell it?" demanded the startled Narnay.
I didn't take the whiskey back to the boys, and Jack's been sayin' all the time I double-crossed him. Says I must ha' spent the money for booze and drunk it meself. And mebbe I would of if I hadn't lost the five," admitted Narnay, wagging his head. "But I don't understand," broke in Nelson Haley. Janice touched his arm warningly.
Narnay had utilized the gifts to the very best advantage. But the poor little thing was quite as hungry looking as ever. "Oh, Miss Janice!" she said, "I wish you'd come down to see our baby. She's ever so much worse'n she was. I guess 'twas a good thing 'at we never named her. 'Twould jest ha' been a name wasted." "Oh, dear, Sophie! is she as bad as all that?" cried Janice.
"Janice!" he exclaimed and put his arm around her shoulders, stooping a little to see into her face. "Don't cry, child! Is is it dead?" Janice nodded. Jim Narnay came to the door. His bloated, bearded face was working with emotion. He saw the tenderness with which Nelson Haley led the girl to the car.
"Jack Besmith!" gasped the school teacher, the light dawning in his mind. "Yes," said Narnay. "Me and Trimmins has knowed it for a long time. We wormed it out o' Jack when he was drunk. But he was putting up for the stuff right along, so we didn't tell. He's got most of the money hid away somewhere we don't know where. "He told us he saw the stuff up at Massey's the night before he stole it.
"If the Inn did not sell liquor, in all human probability, Narnay would not have been drunk that day; at least, not where I could see him. And so Sim and those other young rascals would not have chased and mocked him. I would not have felt so angry with Sim Dear me! everything dovetails together, Nelson's trouble and all.
"I gave Jim Narnay a dollar Saturday afternoon." "Oh!" "He came by here on his way to town. Said he was going down to see his sick baby. She is sick, isn't she?" "Oh, yes," murmured Janice. "Poor little thing!" "Well, he begged for some money, and I let him have a dollar. He said he didn't want to go down home without a cent in his pocket. So I gave it to him."
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