CHAPTER VI.
NEW FACES.
The Cliffords lived a little way out of town.

Mr.Parlin took a carriage at the depot, and he and Dotty had a very pleasant drive to "Aunt 'Ria's." The little girl was rather travel-stained.

Her gloves were somewhat ragged at the tips, from her habit of twitching them so much; and they were also badly soiled with fruit and candy.

Her hair was as smooth as hands could make it; but alas for the "style" hat which had left Portland in triumph! It had reached Indiana in disgrace.

Its tipsy appearance was due to getting stepped on, and being caught in showers.
Dotty's neat travelling dress was defaced by six large grease spots.
Where they had come from Dotty could not conjecture, unless "that sick lady with a bottle had spilled some of her cod-oil on it out of a spoon." The child had intended to astonish her relatives by her tidy array; but, after all her pains, she had arrived out West in a very sorry plight.
"Now, which side must I look for the house, papa ?" "At your right hand, my dear.