3/10 Dinah where is she? He'll want to look for Miss Wi'let hisself." Elsie nodded assent, and hastening to his side softly stroked his face with her hand, kissed him, and putting her lips close to his ear, whispered half sobbingly, "Papa, papa, Vi's gone: we can't find her." He was wide awake instantly. "Run back to your bed, darling," he said: "and don't cry; papa will soon find her." He succeeded in throwing on his clothes and leaving the room without rousing his wife. He felt some anxiety, but the idea that the child had left the house never entered his mind until a thorough search seemed to give convincing proof that she was not in it. |