"No. When I found out you cared so much about 'em, I dars'n't; I was afraid you'd see 'em."
"Then what did you do with 'em?"
"When you was away, Dick come over to sleep with me, and I—I sold 'em to him."
"Sold 'em to Dick!"
"Yes," spoke up Dick, stoutly, "for six marbles, and one was a bull's-eye, and one agate, and two alleys. Then, when you come home and made such a fuss, he wanted 'em ag'in. But he wouldn't give me back but four, and I wa'n't going to agree to no such nonsense as that."
"I'd lost the bull's-eye and one common," whined Taddy.
"But the bonds! did you destroy 'em?"
"Likely I'd destroy 'em, after I'd paid six marbles for 'em!" said Dick. "I wanted 'em to cover my kite with."
"Cover your—oh! then you've made a kite of 'em?" said Ducklow.
"Well, I was going to, when Aunt Beswick ketched me at it. She made me tell where I got 'em, and took me over to your house jest now; and Taddy said you was over here, and so she put ahead, and made us follow her."