"I haven't counted it."
"Fan, you didn't find that money on the floor!" exclaimed she.
"I found it, anyhow," said Fanny, turning her head away from her companion.
"Where did you find it?"
"In the drawer, if you must know," replied Fanny, desperately.
CHAPTER VI.
KATE'S DEFECTION.
"Fanny Grant, you stole that money!" said Kate, as though she had made a great discovery.
It was no discovery at all. She had been reasonably confident that the five dollars, which Fanny acknowledged to be in her possession, had been stolen, or, if not actually stolen, that it had been obtained in a manner entirely at variance even with a very low ideal of common honesty. She was willing to enjoy the good things which might be bought with the five dollars, but she was not disposed to bear the responsibility of the theft, either as principal or accessory. If, when the day of reckoning came, she could make it appear that she did not know the money had been stolen, she would escape the penalty and the odium of being a thief, or a receiver of stolen goods.