“Yes,” said Florence, “you are a very great actress!”
“Tico and I are very great,” Petite Jeanne laughed again, for at that moment she was the happiest girl in the world.
One moment that wild enthusiasm lasted; then again came desire to know, to hear the answers to many sealed secrets.
“Come!” she said. “Let us tell secrets by the light of a candle.”
CHAPTER XXXIII
FAST WORK
In the meantime, in the far-away Northland, there was great commotion within one small cottage. Tillie had received Florence’s message. She had read it over twice before showing it to her father and to Turkey Trot.
At last she read it aloud: “Bring the trunk at once. Your expenses will be paid.”
“What trunk does she mean?” her father asked in surprise.
“It’s a trunk we foolishly took from the lady cop’s cottage last summer,” Tillie replied, and groaned.
“But oh, father!” she cried a moment later, “I must go!”