“No doubt. I know you have a good home and enough to eat.”
“I only get seven dollars a week.”
“And I get nothing.”
“I have already been trying to help you. I went to Ropes the other day, and asked him to lend me five dollars. I meant it for you.”
“Did he give it to you?”
“He wouldn’t give me a cent. He is mean and miserly!”
“I don’t know. He knows very well that you are no friend of his, though he doesn’t know how much harm you have done him.”
“He’s rolling in money. However, I’ve put a spoke in his wheel, I hope.”
“How?”
“I wrote an anonymous letter to Mr. Sargent telling him that Ropes was discharged from the store on suspicion of theft.”