understand? You all want my money. Oh, dear,

dear

!" Margaret wailed,

and her great voice was shaken to its depths and its sobbing was the

long, hopeless sobbing of a violin, as she flung back her tear-stained

face, and clenched her little hands tight at her sides; "why

can't

you let me alone? You're all after my money--you, and Mr. Kennaston,

and Mr. Jukesbury, and all of you! Why

can't