`` Just as well to be careful where you put that , '' he said laughingly . `` There 's a sum in it not to be picked up on every gooseberry bush . Gilman Harris paid me this morning for that bit of woodland I sold him last fall -- five hundred dollars . I promised that you and the girls should have it to get a new piano , so there it is for you . '' `` Thank you , '' said Mrs. Carroll delightedly . `` However , you 'd better put it back in your pocket till we go in . Amy is in a hurry . '' Mr. Carroll took back the pocketbook and dropped it carelessly into the inside pocket of the light overcoat that he wore . I happened to glance at Ned Brooke just then , and I could not help noticing the sudden crafty , eager expression that flashed over his face . He eyed the pocketbook in Mr. Carroll 's hands furtively , after which he went off with the horse in a great hurry . The girls were exclaiming and thanking their father , and nobody noticed Ned Brooke 's behaviour but myself , and it soon passed out of my mind . `` Come to take the place , are you , Amy ? '' said Mr. Carroll . `` Well , everything is ready , I think . I suppose we 'd better proceed . Where shall we stand ? You had better group us as you think best . '' Whereupon I proceeded to arrange them in due order under the maple . Mrs. Carroll sat in a chair , while her husband stood behind her . Gertie stood on the steps with a basket of flowers in her hand , and Lilian was at one side .
The two little boys , Teddy and Jack , climbed up into the maple , and little Dora , the dimpled six-year-old , stood gravely in the foreground with an enormous grey cat hugged XXXXX her chubby arms .
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