"Only to give her dis bundle, massa, dat Pomp jus brought from de
city."
"Give it to me," he said, extending his hand to receive it.
A few moments afterward Elsie and her friend returned to the
house, and meeting Pomp, she asked him if he had brought her
candy.
He replied that he had got some that was very nice indeed, and he
thought that Fanny had carried it to her; and seeing Fanny near,
he called to her to know what she had done with it.
"Why, Pomp, Massa Horace he told me to give it to him," said the
girl.
Elsie turned away with a very disappointed look.
"You'll go and ask him for it, won't you?" asked Lucy, who was
anxious to enjoy a share of the candy as well as to see Elsie
gratified.
"No," said Elsie, sighing, "I had rather do without it."
Lucy coaxed for a little while, but finding it impossible to
persuade Elsie to approach her father on the subject, finally
volunteered to do the errand herself.
Elsie readily consented, and Lucy, trembling a little in spite of
her boast that she was not afraid of him, walked out on to the
veranda where Mr.
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