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Updated: May 13, 2025
Another little girl had also reached home, but she did not bang the door. She entered her mother's shop to encounter the flushed and much-perturbed face of her parent. "Well, Susy," said Mrs. Hopkins, "I wouldn't have thought it of you." "Why, what is it, mother?" "There's nineteen-and-sixpence taken out of the till," said Mrs. Hopkins.
"We will find it, mother; we are sure to find it," said Susy; and the way she said these words aggravated poor Mrs. Hopkins, as she said afterwards, more than a little. It was quite true that Mrs. Hopkins could ill afford to lose so large a sum as nineteen-and-sixpence out of her small earnings.
"Some one must have come into the shop, for the accounts are nineteen-and-sixpence short. When I left the house yesterday there were three pounds in the till three pounds and fivepence-halfpenny.
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