I'm a thief, and if I die to-night I know where thieves go to.' So Oswald saw it was no good and he sat up in bed and said--'Go ahead.' So Alice stood shivering and said--'I hadn't enough money for the telegram, so I took the bad sixpence out of the exchequer.

And I paid for it with that and the fivepence I had.

And I wouldn't tell you, because if you'd stopped me doing it I couldn't have borne it; and if you'd helped me you'd have been a thief too.

Oh, what shall I do ?' Oswald thought a minute, and then he said-- 'You'd better have told me.

But I think it will be all right if we pay it back.