"Did you know her before that, Mrs.
Hopkins ?" "Why, I didn't exactly know her, but I seen her workin' around Miss Squiers's place many a time, and she didn't seem to 'mount to much, even then.

One day she stole a di'mond ring off'n old Miss Squiers and dug out, and I told Nancy then--Nancy's young Miss Squiers--that I'd always had my suspicions of the hussy.

She hid the ring in a vase on the mantle and they found it after she was gone." "Well, well! I didn't know that about her," said the man, looking with admiration at Mrs.Hopkins.
"That's why I told 'Rast not to have any truck with her, when she came here bright and early one morning and asked for work." "Oh, she came here, did she ?" "While I was gettin' breakfast.

She said her name was Eliza Parsons, an' she was looking fer a job.

I told her I knew her record an' to get out, and while we was arguin' 'Rast come out and took a hand in the talk.