The girl's a powerful talker." He lighted his pipe and then resumed: "Well, my notion is he expected to find something in your room; something that he thought worth more than money." "But I have nothing valuable," Agatha objected, with a laugh.

"Now I remember, I made him empty his pockets and he left two half-dollars! It wasn't a very big fine, and I can send the dollar to some charity." "I can't see an explanation, and we'll have to let it go; but the man will find trouble waiting if he comes back.

Let me know right away if anybody gets after you like that again." Agatha said she would do so, and hearing Mrs.Farnam's step in the passage, they began to talk about something else.
A week later, Agatha went to visit George, and then feeling braced by the holiday, resumed her duties in Toronto.

Soon afterwards, she sat in her room one evening in a thoughtful mood.

The house was on the outskirts of the city and she heard cheerful voices and the jingle of sleigh-bells on the road.