journey; and that day, just after dinner, he and Nannie stood
quaking at the dining-room door. "I-I-I'll do it," Blair gasped,
with trembling valor. He was very little, and his eyes were
dilating with fright. "I'll do it," he said, chattering. Nannie
rushed into the breach; Nannie never pretended to be anything but
a 'fraid-cat except in things that concerned Blair; she said now,
boldly:

"I'm the oldest, so I ought to."

She crept across the floor, stopping at every step to listen
breathlessly; nothing stirred, except her own little shadow
crouching at her heels.

"Grab in the top drawer," Blair hissed after her; and she put a
shrinking hand into the japanned box, and "grabbed" all the bills
she could hold; then, not waiting to close the drawer, she fled
back to Blair. Up-stairs in her room, they counted the money.

"We can travel all round the world!" Blair whispered, thrilled at
the amount of their loot. But at the last moment there was a
defection--Elizabeth backed out. "I'd rather go out to the toll-
house for ice-cream," she said; "ice-cream at Mrs. Todd's is
nicer than being married. David, don't you go, either. Let Blair
and Nannie go. You stay with me."

But David was not to be moved. "I like traveling; I've traveled a
good deal all my life; and I want to go round the world with
Blair."