"That child should be made to tell," said another.
"She shall be made to tell," Mrs. Deland said as she turned toward the small room that served as an office.
Gwen, as stubborn as a little mule, refused to tell the proprietor of the house, when he called her into his office, and after talking for a half hour on the naughtiness of being stubborn, and the especial naughtiness of not telling where Max went, and thus helping the searchers to find him, she again flatly refused.
If it had been true honor in being determined to keep her promise that made Gwen refuse, one could not but praise her courage, but her impulse was wholly selfish.
Max had said that if he ever returned and found that she had told, he would never speak to her again.
She valued Max's friendship above that of any of her playmates, and she refused to tell where he went, because he had insisted.
There was great rejoicing at "The Syren's Cave."
The "coming in" of the ship that Captain Seaford had long been looking for proved to be even more fortunate than he had dreamed.
Its cargo was indeed valuable, and as he obtained a much higher price for it than he had expected, his kindly heart was filled with gratefulness, and his eyes grew brighter, and he walked with a lighter step.