I played the child very nicely, I think, and you quite forgot I was a brigand's daughter, with the wild, free blood of many brave outlaws coursing in my veins.

Ah, I am more proud of that than of my acting.
"Innocent as I seemed, I watched you all carefully, and knew from almost the first hour where the money had been put.

I stole the key to Uncle John's trunk on the train, while we were going from Taormina to Syracuse; but I did not take the money from it because I had no better place to keep it, and the only danger was that he would force the lock some day.

But Ferralti's money--I call him Ferralti because it is a prettier name than Weldon--bothered me for a long time.

At the first he would not let that little satchel out of his sight, and when he finally did he had removed the money to some other place.