"Why if you give me three-and-six, it'll do," answered Jeckie. With the coins which he gave her still in her hand, she followed him to the street door and looked out into a grey sea-fog that was rolling slowly up the street. She continued to look when he had said good-bye and gone quickly away ... she watched his disappearing figure until the sea-fog swallowed it up. She went back to the living-room then, and took down from the mantelpiece an old lustre-jug which she had treasured all through her life, since the time of her girlhood at Applecroft, and in which she now kept her small change. And as she dropped the three-and-six in it, the lustre-jug slipped from her fingers, and was broken into fragments on the hearthstone. Presently, she picked up the fragments and went out into the yard behind the house and threw them away on the dustheap; bits of pot, not more shattered than her own self. THE END * * * * * _Novels by_ J. S. FLETCHER THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL THE SECRET OF THE BARBICAN THE MILL OF MANY WINDOWS THE COPPER BOX THE HEAVEN-KISSED HILL EXTERIOR TO THE EVIDENCE THE VALLEY OF HEADSTRONG MEN THE LOST MR. LINTHWAITE End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Root of All Evil, by J. S. Fletcher