"No, he isn't!" said the Corner House girl, stoutly. "He's a fine old man. I've talked with him."
"Oh, Agnes!" cried Myra. "Did you see him and try to beg off for us?"
"No. I didn't do that. I didn't see that that would help us. Mr. Marks has punished us, not Mr. Bob Buckham."
"I bet she did," said Mary Breeze, unkindly. "At least, I bet she tried to beg off for herself."
"Now, Mary, you know you don't believe any such thing," Eva said. "We know what kind of girl Agnes Kenway is. She would not do such a thing. If she asked, it would be for us all."
"No," said Agnes, shortly. "I did not do that. I just told Mr. Buckham how sorry I was for taking the berries."
"Oh! What did he say, Aggie?" asked another girl.
"He forgave me. He was real nice about it," Agnes confessed.
"But he told on us. Otherwise we wouldn't be in this pickle," Mary Breeze said. "I don't call that nice."
Agnes had it on her tongue to say that she did not believe Mr. Bob Buckham had sent the list of the culprit's names to Mr. Marks. Although she had said nothing more to Neale O'Neil about it, she knew that the boy was confident that the list of girls' names reached the principal of the Milton High through some other channel than that of the farmer. Agnes herself was assured that Mr. Buckham could not write. Nor did he and his wife seem like people who would do such a thing. Besides, how had the farmer obtained the girls' names, in the first place?