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"I suppose our money is all gone," sighed the sick woman. "No, mother; see here! I have three dollars," and Katy pulled out her porte-monnaie, anxious to save her even a moment of uneasiness. But in taking out the money she exhibited the watch also, which at once excited Mrs. Redburn's curiosity. "What have you been doing with that, Katy?" she asked. "Ah, I fear I was right. We have no money!
"The money you dropped out of your porte-monnaie, yesterday, was Prudy's, not yours; and what are you going to do about it?" "Let me see; my mother'll come to-morrow; I'll ask her to give me some more." "But is that right? Dotty lost the money; must not Dotty be the one to give it back?" "O, grandma, I can't find it! The wind blew it away, or a horse stepped on it. I can't find it, certainly."
I never expected to learn of my niece's engagement from the public press. I am confident the notice said 'Gale. Ah! I thought so. Plain as the nose on your face," she added, producing from her porte-monnaie a newspaper cutting and reading aloud: "'It is rumored that the engagement of the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Augustus Harlan, the Railway Magnate, to Mr.
"How much do you want?" he returned, drawing forth an old worn green porte-monnaie. "If you will be satisfied with a chop, two shillings will get all you want," said Katherine. "There, then; bring me the change and account," he returned, handing her the required sum.
"Thank you, sir," said Frank. The lady followed out the suggestion, and, plunging her hand once more into her pocket, drew out a small porte-monnaie. She hardly knew whether to be glad or sorry at this discovery. It placed her in rather an awkward position after the fuss she had made, and the detention to which she had subjected the passengers, now, as it proved, for nothing.
In reality, he had turned this naive head. Louison became dreamy, asked for a lock of his hair, which she always carried with her in her 'porte-monnaie', went to get her fortune told to know whether the dark-complexioned young man, the knave of clubs, would be faithful to her for a long time. Amedee trusted this simple heart for some time, but at length he became tired of her vulgarities.
She counted it carefully, but found only thirteen dollars. If she could have recovered her porte-monnaie she would have had twenty dollars to offer, and even that seemed mockingly insufficient, as the price of silence, of temporary escape from humiliation. What could she do?
"Nothing of consequence, major. Of course we all felt uncomfortable when it was known that Holmes had lost a porte-monnaie from his overcoat-pocket as it hung here on the rack that night. Though he protests there was nothing in it, the thing might have been serious. You remember you thought the hall-door had been opened during our dinner.
In her haste she had left on the desk one glove, and her small ivory porte-monnaie which her mother had sent from Rome.
"As for dangaire," he said "pouf! dere is none. See, I go alone no arms, not a knife an' yet gold in my porte-monnaie." And he drew forth his porte-monnaie, and opened it so as to exhibit its contents. A little further conversation followed. Girasole evidently was perfectly familiar with the road. The idea of brigands appeared to strike him as some exquisite piece of pleasantry.
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