“Why, why,” Edna began, but Nettie interrupted her with “I have it! I have it!”
“Have what?” Edna was still mystified.
“The prize! The prize! I won it. The money came in the mail this morning.”
Edna had not counted on this possibility and it was as much of a surprise to her as it had been to Nettie. “Oh! Oh! Oh!” she cried, and she, too, began to dance up and down hugging Nettie as fervently as Nettie had hugged her. “Have you told your mother?”
“Oh, yes, I couldn’t possibly keep it.”
“Do show me what they said.” So Nettie took her in and showed her the precious letter with the enclosed order for a dollar, which made it seem a very real thing.
“Ben will be so pleased,” said Edna with satisfaction. “It is really owing to him that it got there soon enough.”
“And to you for helping me and for telling me in the first place. I think I ought to divide with you.”
“Why, Nettie Black, you won’t do any such thing. Don’t you know that it was all on your account that we did it in the first place?”
“Ye-es, but after your doing so much it doesn’t seem fair for you to have none of it.”