[Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter]@TWC D-Link bookLaddie CHAPTER IX 16/55
So I saw that money wasn't the trouble, else he'd have looked quick enough to see how much I had. They were thinking about Leon being gone, at least father was.
Mother called me to her and asked: "You knew about the Station ?" I nodded. "When ?" "On the way back from taking Amanda Deam her ducks this summer." "Leon was with you ?" "He found it." "What were you doing ?" "Sitting on the fence eating apples.
We were wondering why that ravine place wasn't cleaned up, when everywhere else was, and then Leon said there might be a reason.
He told about having seen a black man, and that he was hidden some place, and we hunted there and found it.
We rolled back the stone, and opened the door, and Leon went in, and both of us saw a can full of money." "Go on." "We didn't touch it, mother! Truly we didn't! Leon said we'd found something not intended for children, and we'd be whipped sick if we ever went near or told, and we never did, not even once, unless Leon wanted to boast to the traveller man, but if he showed him the place, he thought sure the money had all been spent on the wedding and sending Shelley away." Father's arms shot out, and his head pitched on the table.
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