Henrietta Haney was a child in whom the two Roselawn girls had become much interested while she had lived in the Dogtown district of New Melford with Mrs. Foley and her family. Montmorency Shannon was a red-haired urchin from the same poor quarters, and he and Henrietta were the best of friends.
"Oh, Miss Jessie! Miss Jessie! What d'you think? I'm rich!"
"She certainly is rich," choked Amy, following her chum with Nell Stanley. "She's a scream."
"What do you mean—that you are rich, Henrietta?" Jessie asked, smiling at her little protégé.
"I tell you, I am rich. Or, I am goin' to be. I own an island and everything. And there's bungleloos on it, and fishing, and a golf course, and everything. I am rich."
"What can the child mean?" asked Jessie Norwood, looking back at her friends. "She sounds as though she believed it was actually so."