As soon as I saw you I seemed to feel an inspiration that Providence had sent you to me in my distress.

For it would break my heart if I were compelled to have that poor, weak boy arrested, and charged with so grievous a breach of the law.

You being a boy may be able to have a certain amount of influence over him.

You may even induce him to own up to his act, and send me back my precious spoons.

The ones taken by some accident are the very ones I value most." "While I give you my promise willingly enough, ma'am," Hugh went on to say deliberately, "I want to add that I can't believe it possible Owen Dugdale could be so small and mean as to yield to an impulse, and take anything that belonged to another." "That is splendid of you, Hugh!" she cried, her black eyes sparkling with genuine admiration.