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really think that to try to punish Miguel would be more trouble than it would be worth.”
“I cannot say that I agree with you,” said Brenda, after they had left the Rosas. “If that man is Miguel Silva, I think that he ought to be punished. He had n’t a bit of right to that money; you know papa looked into the account and found that it was hardly twenty-five dollars, and the man had trumped up all the rest of it. If that is n’t stealing, I don’t see what would be. But still—dear me—I can’t bear to think that that interesting man is the one. Perhaps Mrs. Rosa is wrong about him.”
“You know his name now; shall you take the photographs to him at Salem?” asked Julia, mischievously.
