Tim told me, with a big choke in his voice, that, if the Man-killer had swallowed him up, it would have been all up with the little girl, too.

When money stopped coming the relatives would probably have set the child to being household drudge for the family.

Tim has a round dozen of different photos of the child taken at various times." "Then I'm extra glad we got him out of the Man-killer," said Tom rather huskily.
"I knew you'd be glad, Reade.

You're that kind of fellow." "Tim Griggs, then, is probably one of our steady men," Tom remarked, after a while.
"Steady! Why the man generally sends all of his month's pay, except about eight dollars, to his daughter.

From what he tells me she is a sharp, thrifty little thing.