All you would have to do would be to answer
advertisements for servant girls. I will see that you have the
best of references. Then, when you get in with the right people,
you will open the front door some night and let in the gang. Of
course, you will make a get-away when they do, and get your bit
as well."
There flashed still another of the swift, sly glances, and the
lips of the girl parted as if she would speak. But she did not;
only, her head sagged even lower on her breast, and the shrunken
form grew yet more shrunken. Mary, watching closely, saw these
signs, and in the same instant a change came over her. Where
before there had been an underlying suggestion of hardness, there
was now a womanly warmth of genuine sympathy.
"It doesn't suit you?" she said, very softly. "Good! I was in
hopes it wouldn't. So, here's another plan." Her voice had
become very winning. "Suppose you could go West--some place
where you would have a fair chance, with money enough so you
could live like a human being till you got a start?"
There came a tensing of the relaxed form, and the head lifted a
little so that the girl could look at her questioner.
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