“Shall it be fifty dollars, then?”
“If you are willing.”
“I am quite willing. Do you dare to go up with me into the chamber overhead?”
“I don’t know. It makes me tremble to think of it.”
Finally the two sisters mustered the necessary courage and cautiously crept upstairs, and paused before the door, which was locked upon the outside.
“Suppose the wicked man is inside?” suggested Susan, trembling.
“Oh, there is no fear! He wouldn’t care to stay after he found the money gone.”
With some apprehension, they opened the door. When they saw the wreck of glass and wood upon the carpet, they raised their hands in dismay.
“What a terrible fight poor Andy must have had!” said Susan.
“He has done better than a man,” exclaimed Sally, enthusiastically.