6/13 The man bent down over her, and stared hard into her wide open blue eyes. Palace B] "I didn't know you was here, missie; it was very cunning of you to feign sleep like that--it was very cunning and over sharp, but it don't come round me. No, no; you has got to speak up now, and say what you has seen, and what you hasn't seen. I allow of no nonsense with little girls, and I can always see through them when they mean to tell a lie. You know where the children who tell lies go to, so you'd better speak up, and the whole truth, missie." Dove spoke in a very rough voice, and poor Daisy felt terribly frightened. |