"She's a good little girl."
"She's got to be better before I give her back. Hope you won't fret about her;" and Martin walked away, with a half laugh, as he saw the trouble which the newsboy couldn't help showing in his face.
A sudden idea came to Rufus.
"Ben," he said, beckoning to Ben Gibson, who had just got through with a job, "do you see that man?"
"The one you've been talking with?"
"Yes."
"Well, what about him?"
"I'll give you a dollar if you'll follow him, and find out where he lives. Of course he mustn't know that you are following him."
"Maybe he isn't going home."
"Never mind. Follow him if it takes you all day, and you shall have the dollar."