"Then we can't get at it after all!" wailed Margaret, disappointed all the more keenly for the high hope that had been raised.
"Nope! We just can't get at it—as things stand now!"
"Isn't there any way you can think of, Alexander?" demanded Corinne. "Think what we might find in that secret nook—gold, jewels, papers of great value,—oh! this is exasperating! Can't you think of some way?"
Alexander, however, only appeared to lapse into deep reverie.
"I haven't showed you my whole line o' goods yet!" he confessed, after submitting them to an interval of soul-satisfying suspense.
"You haven't—what?" echoed Corinne uncertainly.
"Told you—all—I know!" he translated obligingly.
"Well, for goodness' sake, go on! How you do tease!"
"Here it is: in a few weeks they're goin' to begin to widen Varick Street and put a subway through."