[CHAPTER XI—HOW THE MONEY WAS SPENT]
It was the night of the Fair.
Letty and Susan, on tiptoe with excitement and carefully carrying the green leather bag between them, walked to the church behind Mrs. Spargo and Miss Lamb, whose Blackbird Pie was all ready and waiting for customers.
In the green pocketbook reposed the “five tens, one quarter, two fives, and four pennies.”
“See that star, Letty?” asked Susan, holding tight to Letty’s arm as she gazed up at the moon, half hidden in the clouds, and at a single star that shone near by. “Let’s wish on it.”
“Star light, star bright,
First star I’ve seen to-night,
I wish I may, I wish I might
Have the wish I wish to-night”—
recited the two little girls in chorus.
There was silence for a moment, and then Susan whispered:
“What did you wish, Letty?”
“Will you tell me if I tell you?” was Letty’s reply.