"Not unless you let me."
He glanced at the door apprehensively, pressed nearer, and whispered—
"Mamsie put that bank-note into your box herself!"
[CHAPTER XV.]
A CRASH!
LETTICE could not control her start. Every pulse in her body seemed to leap with the shock. For some seconds she uttered no sound. At first she dared not let herself speak. She could only sit motionless, holding back the burning words which crowded to her lips; while the boy stared at her with half-frightened eyes. Then she said in a muffled voice—
"What makes you think so?"
"I know she did."
"How do you know?"
"I saw her."