"Nora," appealed their mother, "you always tell the truth. Didn't Jerry
help you?"

"I didn't see him, Mother. Ask Jerry."

"Did you help them, Jerry? Not that it makes any difference; you'll get
just as big a piece of pie as any of them."

"No'm, I didn't," replied Jerry. His lips parted again as though he
wanted to say more but closed without a word.

"You're such a willing worker, I thought Danny was just trying to get
even for something," said Mother 'Larkey.

"Where'd you go, Jerry?" asked Chris.

"Yah! Tell us that," demanded Danny.

"I just thought I'd run over to the drug store," replied Jerry.

"What did you want to go there for?"

Jerry said nothing.

"I bet he found a penny and bought himself some candy," cried Celia
Jane, falling into the habit that many older people have of judging
others by themselves.

"Tandy," said Kathleen, struck by that word, and she pulled the remnant
of the cough drop out of her mouth and displayed it proudly.