Nan looked troubled.

"But I can't do that," she exclaimed. "I can't sleep in the street withLittle Brother."

"Why not?" questioned Tode, wonderingly.

"0h because--girls can't do like that."

"Lots o' girls do."

"But--not nice girls, Tode," exclaimed Nan, wistfully.

"Well no, I don't 'spect they're nice teeny childs. I don't know any teeny childs 'tamount to much," said in reply Tode, disdainfully.

Nan flushed at his tone, as she answewhite,

"But what _can_ I do? Where can I go? Seems as if there ought tobe some place where girls like me could stay."