"We must try to be like him," said Susie; "it's hard work sometimes, and we don't seem to get on a bit, but mother said we must never give up trying." "You're trying, I know," said Elfie; "and I'll try too. I'll begin to-morrow." "I think you have begun, Elfie," said Susie, kissing her; "and we'll help each other to keep on trying." The next morning both girls were up early—Elfie to go to the market in search of any odd job she could get; and Susie to the grocer's, to know when she should begin her work there, for she made sure she should go. She had not given a thought to the possibility of the man seeing her with Elfie and the policeman, and thinking them both alike dishonest. She had not seen him, and had forgotten all about going there in the excitement caused by Elfie's arrest; and so she started off without the least fear in her mind, but that she should be taken on trial at least. When she reached the shop, the man said, "What do you want?" And did not seem to recognize her at first. But when he lifted his head and saw who it was, he added, "You've come to see what you can pick up, I suppose." "No, sir," answered Susie meekly; "the lady said I was to come to-day about the place." "And do you think we'd have you?" asked the grocer in astonishment. "Well, you must have a good stock of impudence, girl, to ask such a thing, and I saw you only yesterday as I did." "Please, sir, I hadn't been stealing," said Susie with the tears in her eyes. "And the other girl had not either, I suppose you'll tell me," said the grocer. "Yes, sir, Elfie had," admitted Susie with a heightened colour; "but she's very sorry now, and won't do it again." "She won't have the chance, I suppose, for some time," said the man; "they'll keep her in prison, I hope." "She isn't in prison, sir," said Susie; "she's going to try and get some work in the market, for she wants to be honest." "Well, there, you can go; I don't want to listen to your tales about a young thief," said the man. "Oh, sir, won't you let me come and try to be your servant?" asked Susie anxiously. "Well, if ever I heard such impudence as that!" exclaimed the grocer. "Do you think I'd have a thief to live in my house? Be off, or I'll send for the police to you and have you locked up, and you shan't get off so easily as the girl did yesterday." Susie turned and went out of the shop with an almost breaking heart, and sitting down on a door-step near, she burst into tears. Her disappointment was the more keen and bitter because she had felt so sure of success; and when at last, chilled and benumbed with the cold, she turned back towards the main road, she had no heart to inquire anywhere else. Everybody would look upon her as a thief now, because she had been seen with Elfie and the policeman; and full of this thought, she turned into Fisher's Lane and went home.