"Martha Vaughn!" said Trove, turning quickly.
"Yes, one o' God's people," said the tinker.
"Ye may have seen her?"
"I have seen her," said Trove.
"'At ten o'clock to-morrow I shall foreclose,' says Brooke, waving his fist.
"'Give her a little time—till the day after to-morrow,—man, it is not much to ask,' says I.
"'Not an hour,' says he; an' I came away."
Darrel rose and put on his glasses and brought a newspaper and gave it to the boy.
"Read that," said he, his finger on the story, "an' see what came of it."
The article was entitled "A Rag Doll—The Story of a Money-lender whose Name, let us say, is Brown."