“Nobody told me. Honest, they didn't.”
“Somebody must have told you; else how did you know?”
Mary-'Gusta hesitatingly held up the photograph. “It's written on this,” she said.
Mr. Chase snatched it from her hand. He looked at the picture and then at her.
“It's written on the back,” went on the girl.
Isaiah turned the photograph over.
“Humph!” he said suspiciously. “I see. Who gave this to you?”
“Nobody gave it to me. I found it in an old trunk up in the attic.”
“Humph! You did, eh? Well, I swan to man! Have you showed it to anybody else but me?”
“No, sir. Honest, I haven't. I just found it this minute.”