? ? ? ? "No doubt. I know you have a good home and enough to eat."
? ? ? ? "I only get seven dollars a week."
? ? ? ? "And I get nothing."
? ? ? ? "I have already been trying to help you. I went to Ropes the other day, and asked him to lend me five dollars. I meant it for you."
? ? ? ? "Did he give it to you?"
? ? ? ? "He wouldn't give me a cent. He is mean and miserly!"
? ? ? ? "I don't know. He knows very well that you are no friend of his, though he doesn't know how much harm you have done him."
? ? ? ? "He's rolling in money. However, I've put a spoke in his wheel, I hope."
? ? ? ? "How?"
? ? ? ? "I wrote an anonymous letter to Mr. Sargent telling him that Ropes was discharged from the store on suspicion of theft."
? ? ? ? "You are a precious scamp, Jasper."
? ? ? ? "What do you mean?"
? ? ? ? "You are not content with getting Ropes discharged for something which you yourself did----"
? ? ? ? "And you too."
? ? ? ? "And I too.
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