"He has an object in view. He won't give you up to your grandfather unless he gets a large sum of money. I suppose he has promised to give Peggy some of the money."
"Yes, I heard him promise Peggy a hundred dollars."
Mark smiled.
"Then I think he is going to cheat Peggy," he said. "He wants five thousand dollars for himself."
"Why, that is a good deal more than a hundred dollars."
"Yes, it is fifty times as much. Did Peggy seem to be satisfied with a hundred?"
"No; she said it was very little, but he said perhaps my grandfather would give her as much as that every year."
"It is evident he proposes to take the old woman in."
"I don't care, if he will only take me back to my grandfather. Will he give me enough to eat?"
"My poor child, are you hungry?" asked Mark, compassionately.