Nancy looked as if she listened in a dream.
"An' one thing more I want ter tell ye. I never approved er Steve's stealin' ye. I told him 'twa'n't right, but he wouldn't listen, an' I couldn't help ye. I was as 'fraid er him as ye was, an' he was so headstrong, I had ter let him do as he wanted ter. I'm tired now, and ye'd better run out ter the kitchen with Sue. I know I'll feel better now I've freed my mind."
Nancy hurried to Sue to tell the wonderful story, and to show the necklace.
"And here's her name on the large flat side of the clasp," she said.
"And I didn't like to ask her how soon I could go home, just when she'd given the pretty thing to me, but, Sue," she continued, "don't you think she means _surely_ to let me go as early as to-morrow?"
"I do'no' what she means ter do, that is, not _exactly_, but p'raps ye won't hev ter ask her. Maybe she'll tell ye 'thout any teasin'."
Those who would like to see Dorothy and her many friends again, and to learn what became of Nancy, may meet them all again in "Dorothy Dainty in the Country."