. St. Nicholas [serial]. nly known aboutthat house at first! It wouldhave suggested the thing to usright away ! Huh ! remarked Alexan-der, disgustedly. / knewaljout that old joint right along—ever since I lived here ! /could have told you a thing ortwo, if you d only consultedyours truly sooner ! Well, never mind! saidCorinne, soothingly. Maybe we did get atthings in a roundabout, clumsy fashion; butwe got there, just the same, and we had agood time doing it. too ! But now .1 ve some-thing brand-new to say, and I want you allto listen very attentively. This is a matterthat needs a lot of caref
. St. Nicholas [serial]. nly known aboutthat house at first! It wouldhave suggested the thing to usright away ! Huh ! remarked Alexan-der, disgustedly. / knewaljout that old joint right along—ever since I lived here ! /could have told you a thing ortwo, if you d only consultedyours truly sooner ! Well, never mind! saidCorinne, soothingly. Maybe we did get atthings in a roundabout, clumsy fashion; butwe got there, just the same, and we had agood time doing it. too ! But now .1 ve some-thing brand-new to say, and I want you allto listen very attentively. This is a matterthat needs a lot of careful consideration. We veal)out come to the end of our rope, as far asmaking any further progress with this mysteryis concerned. We ve been having a lot of fun and entertainment out of it, of course, with thesestories of our own, and all that sort of we re not getting any forrarder, as Dickenssays; and do you know, I m beginning to thinkthat perhaps we re not doing just right in keep-ing this all to ourselves !. I ) ?\Ml WHAT IKJ VOU THINK I SAW Here Margaret started and gave her a re-proachful look. Corinne put an arm over theinvalid girls shoulder and continued: Honey dear, I know you think I m playingthe traitor, and trying to spoil our delightful se-cret society, ljut 1 m really not; and if you 11hear me to the end. I believe you 11 feel the sameas I do. I ve been doing a lot of hard thinkingabout this matter lately. Perhaps you have ntrealized it, but I am certain that this old journal 514 THE SAPPHIRE SIGNET, OR, THE LASS OF RICHMOND HILL weve found is really a very valuable thing—notonly valuable in the way of money (for manypeople would pay a great deal for a genuine olddocument like this), but also in the way of his-torical information. We re keeping to ourselvessomething that might really throw light on thepast history of our city. Now, of course, I m not certain about this,but I d like to have the opinion of some grownperson who really knows. And
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