"Ay, Nancy! there it is. Now you look! 'Twon't alter it,
Ellen; that's where it was, if you look till tea-time."
"But how came you there?"
" 'Cause I wanted to amuse myself, I tell you. Partly to please myself, and partly because Mrs. Van would be so mad if she knew it."
"Oh, Nancy!"
"Well I don't say it was right but, anyhow, I did it; you han't heard what I found yet."
"You had better put it right back again, Nancy, the first time you have a chance."
"Put it back again! I'll give it to you, and then you may put it back again, if you have a mind. I should like to see you! Why, you don't know what I found."
"Well, what did you find?"
"The box was chuck full of all sorts of things, and I had a mind to see what was in it, so I pulled 'em out one after the other till I got to the bottom. At the very bottom was some letters and papers, and there staring right in my face the first thing I see was 'Miss Ellen Montgomery.' "
"Oh, Nancy!" screamed Ellen "a letter for me?"