The ladies go away and I feel that I am safe; she has
forget about her purse. I want to rush away at once, but I must stay at
my work so no one will suspect.
"Presently the superintendent he come in and he talk to you and you look
very grave. Then he say one of the ladies have left her purse on a table
in this room. Will the girls be kind enough to stop work and search for
it? He will give five dollars reward to the one who finds it. We all
search but no purse is found, and he go away again. Pretty soon he come
back and the lady with him. She look around for a few moments, then she
walk straight over to my table. The superintendent ask is she sure,
quite sure. She say she is perfectly sure. She lay her purse on that
table in order to remove her coat, then forget to take it up again when
she go away; and she look very hard at me.
"The superintendent ask me if I have seen the purse and I say no. I
suppose he know by my face that I am lying for he tell you to take me to
the dressing-room and search. Then I know there is no hope for me; if
you search you find the purse, so I take it out and hand it to him. He
talk to me about my wickedness but I not answer him. He discharge me,
but I not say one word. You talk to me, but I not speak to you either, I
am too heartbroken, too despairing. My mother she will die now, she will
surely die; and grandmother she will have to go out begging once again.
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