“I never held it against Minnie that she thought so poorly of me,” he told the girls. “For a long while I’ve only felt sorry for her. Now that this misunderstanding is cleared up, I hope she’ll let me help her.”
At the tree house, the Brownies remained very excited over discovery of the money. Between bites of cookies and cake, they reviewed every detail of the wonderful day.
“I’m so glad we found the money today, while I’m still almost a Brownie,” Eileen declared. “I couldn’t have stood it if the roll of bills had turned up later on.”
“To think that the money was hidden in the pillow all these years!” Mrs. Myles murmured. “If it hadn’t been for the Brownies, I never would have learned the truth.”
At this moment Veve, Connie and Sam Vincent arrived at the tree house.
Seeing her brother so unexpectedly made Mrs. Myles feel ill at ease.
However, he walked over to her and flung his arm around her thin shoulders.
“Oh, Sam, you know about the money?” she murmured. “Can you forgive me?”
“There’s nothing to forgive,” he assured her. “Minnie, the only thing that matters is the money has been found. You know now that I never took it.”
“Sam, I’m so ashamed of myself for ever doubting you—” Mrs. Myles covered her face and began to sob.