“You wouldn’t,” said Henrietta promptly, “because I wouldn’t let you.”
“Oh! Oh! Hear that child!” cried Sally Moon.
“Nor you, neither,” declared Henrietta. “All them houses are mine—or they are going to be.”
“Hush, Henrietta,” commanded Jessie, in a low voice.
“Didn’t the funny little thing say something before about owning an island?” asked Belle, somewhat puzzled.
“And this is it,” said Henrietta. “You just try to come into any of them bungleloos! I’d get a policeman and have him take you out. So now!”
“Will you behave?” said Jessie, feeling like shaking the child, and in reality leading her away.
Amy came running after them in the midst of Jessie’s berating of the freckle-faced girl.
“Did you ever hear such nonsense?” Jessie’s chum demanded. “Belle declares the case is coming up in court next week and that her father is going to win. Did you ever?”
Mr. Norwood was sitting with his wife when they came near to that lady’s beach chair. Jessie was anxious enough to ask about Belle’s statement regarding the imminent court investigation of the controversy over Station Island.