Patsy, her arms still around the shrinking form of the child, looked pleadingly at her uncle.

Beth's eyes were moist and Louise smiled encouragingly.
"Well, my dears?
The Duke is certainly not entitled to our friendship, as he truly says; but I have nothing against little Tato.

What do you advise ?" "Let us keep her, and dress her like the beautiful doll she is, and love her!" cried Patsy.
"She shall be our adopted cousin," said Louise.
"Tato is good stuff!" declared Kenneth.
"Well, Beth ?" "It seems to me, Uncle," said the girl, seriously, "that if the Duke really wishes to reform, we should give him a helping hand.

The little girl has led a bad life only because her father forced her to lure his victims and then procure the money for their ransoms; but I am sure her nature is sweet and pure, and she is so young that she will soon forget the evil things she has learned.

So I vote with my cousins.