“He is a good man; you must not harm him.”
“Well, you trust to me! Oh, you need not go to putting on any of your airs. What would you be if you hadn’t money? And how would you have gotten the money if it hadn’t been for old——”
“Hush! Don’t you breathe it.”
“Well, then, don’t forget what you owe old Meg. You know what you promised. I’ve got the will right here, and when you get the money you can have it.”
“Hark! Some one will hear you! You promised my father something long ago, and you never have done it yet.”
“Well, now, see here, Rene, if you will find a way for me to put my hands on two hundred to-morrow night—no, that would not do. I must have it to-morrow, and to-night is the last chance. If you will arrange for me to find it I will fix the business up for you right away.”
“I’ll do my best. You will find the amount in my husband’s drawer in the right hand corner of a little private secretary in his sleeping-room. He always 100 keeps his spare change there. Come at two to-night, and I will see that everything is ready for you; but Crisp, I wanted to ask you if you have the girl now.”
“No; she ran away one night in a thunderstorm, and we hain’t found her yet.”
“That is fine! Suppose something should happen that some one should find her!”
“Oh, how the deuce is anyone going to find it out? There ain’t the least thing to go by. Why, she may be dead before this time.”