said Sarah, after a minute. "Yes, I want to sell him."

"You can't change your mind, you know," announced the circus agent
warningly. He wanted the pig but he wished to be fair.

Sarah's chin went up in the air.

"I won't change my mind," she declared. "I won't sell Bony and then
ask for him back. You may have him--now."

"Can't take him till to-morrow morning," said Mr. Robinson. "Don't you
have to ask any older person--your mother, for instance?"

Rosemary shook her head.

"Mr. Hildreth gave the pig to Sarah," she explained. "It is all hers.
And you mustn't tell anyone about buying it--that is, that the money is
for Louisa."

Mr. Robinson looked perplexed, as well he might.

"But little grasshoppers!" he ejaculated, scratching his head. "You
can go just so far with a secret, you know; if I buy this Gay farm a
heap of people will have to know about it."

"Oh, who?" said Rosemary in quick distress.

"Well, the guardian, or whoever holds the estate for them," said Mr.
Robinson. "Then the lawyer who draws the deed and all the folks at the
Court House who have anything to do with the searches and like that."

"I don't understand," declared Rosemary, while Sarah and Shirley began
to fold up the dresses Bony had worn. "But I am sure there is no
guardian. Louisa would have said something about it."

"Never mind," said the circus agent kindly. "Plenty of time to find
out all that later. Now if the little girl really wants to sell the
pig--"

He named a figure that surprised them all. Whether, as Doctor Hugh
suspected when he heard the story, Mr. Robinson wanted to help the Gays
too, and added more as a practical way to assist them; or whether, as
Sarah was firmly convinced, Bony was the smartest pig he had ever seen
and he recognized his value, does not really matter. There, before
three pairs of wondering eyes, he counted out a little heap of soiled
bills and gave them to Sarah.

"I'll take the pig in the morning," he said, folding up the remainder
of his money and fastening the roll with an elastic. "I expect to put
up with the Hildreths to-night and one of the boys will take me back to
town after breakfast. You look after the pig for me till then, won't
you?"

Sarah promised and then, as she did not seem to know what to do with
the money, he suggested that she run into the house and give it to her
mother to put away.

The three girls were anxious to go over to the Gay farm with Mr.
Robin