Only yestahday the Majah had me repeating them." "That's a bright idea," answered her father, who was really more anxious than he allowed any one to see.

"At least it can do no harm to try." "I don't want any dessert.

Mayn't I go now ?" Lloyd asked.

As she hurried up the stairs, her heart beating with excitement, she whispered to herself, "Oh, if he _should_ happen to be lost or hurt, and Hero should find him, it would be the loveliest thing that evah happened." Hero seemed to know, from the moment he saw the little flask marked with the well-known Red Cross, what was expected of him.

All the guests in the inn gathered around the door to see him start on his uncertain quest.