“Besides, Sadie, I was broke.”
The secretary sniffed.
“The cable would have handled that end of it, I guess,” she said, succinctly.
There was no word of contradiction from Dick, who, from ample experience, knew that any demand for funds would have received answer from the father.
“But what is Dad doing in court?” he demanded.
Sarah explained the matter with her usual conciseness:
“One of the girls was arrested for stealing.”
The nature of the son was shown then clearly in one of its best aspects. At once, he exhibited his instinct toward the quality of mercy, and, too, his trust in the father whom he loved, by his eager comment.
“And Dad went to court to get her out of the scrape. That's just like the old man!”
Sarah, however, showed no hint of enthusiasm. Her mind was ever of the prosaic sort, little prone to flights. In that prosaic quality, was to be found the explanation of her dependability as a private secretary. So, now, she merely made a terse statement.