“That boy is all right,” declared Jennie. “I’d like to know him.”
“But I don’t see how Mr. Gordon is to be made to tell what he knows—if he does know more than he has admitted about me,” sighed Nancy.
“Neither do I—yet,” said Jennie. “But we’ll think about it. Maybe that Scorch will find out something.”
“But—really—Mr. Gordon is very kind to me. See how much money he gives me.”
“And perhaps that is only a tithe of what he steals from you.”
“You’re as bad as Scorch,” declared Nancy.
“Well—of course—maybe he is telling the truth, too,” said Jennie. “And twenty dollars at one clip I—Whew!”
Nancy did not tell her that the twenty dollars had paid for the supper Grace and Cora and their friends were enjoying in Number 30 at that very moment.
“But I tell you what,” said Jennie, after a bit, and speaking reflectively.
“Yes?”