Please ship at once.
Very truly, R.E.MOORE, Alpine, Calif.
Mechanically she copied the order on a slip of paper which she put into her pocket, left her desk and her work and the store, and hurried to her boarding house.
Not until she was in her own room with the door locked did she dare let herself think.

She sat down with the copy spread open before her, her slim fingers pressing against her temples.

Something amazing had been revealed to her--something so amazing that she could scarcely comprehend its full significance.

Bud--never for a minute did she doubt that it was Bud, for she knew his handwriting too well to be mistaken--Bud was sending for clothes for a baby boy! "3 Dig in the mud suits, 3 yr--" it sounded, to the hungry mother soul of her, exactly like her Lovin Child.

She could see so vividly just how he would look in them.