1/5 CHAPTER XIX. Can you keep still till I tell you it's all right to speak ?" "I can keep a secret and not even tell it to you," she shot back at him in spirited defiance. "I know a secret that will--that will--help us sure to make lots and lots of money. And I wouldn't even tell you or Aunt Jamsiah, because she tried to make me. So there, Mr.Smarty.And I don't care whether you tell me or not if I can't keep a secret, but I've got a secret all by myself and it's that much bigger than yours," she said, spreading out her thin, little arms to include a vast area. |