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"Oh, dear," sighed Leonore. "My allowance is nearly gone. Don't you ever
do work for very, very poor people, for nothing?"
"Not if their poverty is pretence."
"Oh, but mine isn't. Really. See. Here is my purse. Look for yourself.
That's all I shall have till the first of the month."
She gave Peter her purse. He was still sitting at his desk, and he very
deliberately proceeded to empty the contents out on his blotter. He
handled each article. There was a crisp ten-dollar bill, evidently the
last of those given by the bank at the beginning of the month. There
were two one-dollar bills. There was a fifty-cent piece, two quarters
and a dime. A gold German twenty-mark piece, about eight inches of
narrow crimson ribbon, and a glove button, completed the contents. Peter
returned the American money and the glove button to the purse and handed
it back to Miss D'Alloi.
"You've forgotten the ribbon and the gold piece," said Leonore.
"You were never more mistaken in your life," replied Peter, with
anything but legal guardedness concerning unprovable statements.


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