"Do you know that you are my great-granddaughter ?" "Ess, Elsie knows dat," she answered, nodding her curly head wisely.
Meantime greetings had been exchanged among the others, and the four little girls had got into a corner by themselves.
"O Lu, do tell us all about it!" cried Rosie.

"I never did hear of such a brave girl as you! Why I'd have been scared to death, and never have thought of such a thing as going down where the burglars were." "Oh I think you would if you'd been in my place," returned Lulu modestly.

"You see I was afraid if I waited to tell papa about them, they might come out and see him ready to fight them, and kill him; but I thought if I could get the door shut and fastened on them before they knew anybody was there, nobody would be hurt." "And that's the way it was," said Evelyn.

"But you _were_ a brave girl and there's no use in your denying it." "Yes, indeed, you were," said Rosie.

"But come now do tell us the whole story; we want to hear it fresh from your lips." "And what went on in the magistrate's office too," added Eva.