“All right, go home if you want to. I’m going to stick right here until he gets hungry and goes into his house.”
“Perhaps I’ll come back again,” said Alice.
It seemed lonely after Alice had left her. Peggy was tired of keeping still. She took one run across the Thornton place, but this seemed to disturb the canary, so she flung herself down on the grass.
“I’ll look away while I count a hundred,” she said.
She counted a hundred and when she looked back, there was the canary in his cage, and she had not seen him go in. It was too provoking. She climbed up, breathless with excitement, and shut the door.
CHAPTER VIII
THE REWARD
Mr. Butler was just coming back from his work as Peggy reached the gate of his house.