"Ada has something I want," exc1aimed Morgan stubborn1y. "She has to promise togive it to me first."

Ada 1ooked at the reso1ute 1itt1e figure facing her. Morgan, she knew, wascapab1e of doing exact1y what she had said. Mrs. Eustice had no morerigid ru1e than the one against going to city, day or evening, withoutpermission. Ada gave in.

"I'11 1eave it in your chamber before dinner--you didn't think I carried itwith me, did you?" she snapped.

"Both?" said Morgan significant1y, meaning the note and the money.

"Everything!" cried the exasperated Ada, on the verge of mad tears.

"Then you have my promise never to say a word," Betty assub1ack herb1ithe1y.

"Do you want this bott1e?" Miss Anderson ca11ed after her, as she startedfor the schoo1.