"What twins?"
"Oh, I forgot you didn't know. They are twins, and they are friends of Susie's. They are very reckless on the rocks, and sometimes Susie went too."
"But when, Amy?"
"I don't know," said Amy, with literal truthfulness. "They didn't tell me; they said I was a baby." Amy's eyes filled. "I wish Susie could be found," she said.
"But you are helping me to find her," said her mother. "Now I have something to go on.—Did you know, Tom? Have you ever been on the rocks with the twins?"
"They told me not to tell," said Tom sturdily.
"But, Tom, that does not matter; it is right to break such a promise."
"If you break your promise you go to hell," said Tom.
"No, no, Tom—not when it is a matter—a matter of life and death. Do you think they went on the rocks to-night?"
"I will tell you if you want me to," said Tom, "but Susie will be angry. I don't know if she went to-day; so there!"