Mrs.Rossmore took him aside while Mrs.Blake joined Shirley and the judge.
"Did you tell Shirley ?" asked Mrs.Rossmore.

"How did she take it ?" "She knows everything," answered Stott, "and takes it very sensibly.

We shall find her of great moral assistance in our coming fight in the Senate," he added confidently.
[Pencil illustration of Shirley embracing her father at the gate of the cottage at Massapequa.] "Father! Father! What have they done to you ?"--_Page 161_.
Realizing that the judge would like to be left alone with Shirley, Mrs.Rossmore invited Mrs.Blake to go upstairs and see the room she would have, while Stott said he would be glad of a washup.
When they had gone Shirley sidled up to her father in her old familiar way.
"I've just been longing to see you, father," she said.

She turned to get a good look at him and noticing the lines of care which had deepened during her absence she cried: "Why, how you've changed! I can scarcely believe it's you.

Say something.