'It is a new franc that a good lady gave her. She should have brought it to me!' screamed the woman. Then catching sight of the glitter of silver in the sailor's hand, she cried in altered tones, 'but, Monsieur, you see she is but a child, and though I must not let her lose things—— '
'I didn't lose it—it was stolen,' sobbed the child.
'Well, here's your franc,' said Jack, interrupting some exclamation which the woman was about to make. 'Now let the child alone.'
He was slipping some coins into the hands of the children also, when a cry from Estelle made him turn hastily.
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"'How much has the child lost?' he asked."
