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It has absolutely
nothing to do with the rest of you, or with our schemes for
money-making. And, what is more, Agnes, I don't want to talk
about it. But----"
"Yes?" queried Aggie, encouragingly, as the other paused. She
hopefully awaited further confidences.
"But I do want to know," Mary continued with some severity, "what
you meant by talking in the public street yesterday with a common
pickpocket."
Aggie's childlike face changed swiftly its expression from a sly
eagerness to sullenness.
"You know perfectly well, Mary Turner," she cried indignantly,
"that I only said a few words in passin' to my brother Jim. And
he ain't no common pickpocket. Hully Gee! He's the best dip in
the business."
"But you must not be seen speaking with him," Mary directed, with
a certain air of command now become habitual to her among the
members of her clique. "My cousin, Miss Agnes Lynch, must be
very careful as to her associates."
The volatile Agnes was restored to good humor by some subtle
quality in the utterance, and a family pride asserted itself.


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