"No," she cried out, with a sob of utter desolation.

"No, no." "Why not, dear ?" "They don't want; they don't want.

No, no!" "They don't want you?
Your own father and mother don't want you?
Darling, what is the matter ?" But Ellen was dumb again.

She stood sobbing, with a painful restraint, and pulling futilely from the lady's persuasive hand.

But it ended in the mastery of the child.
Suddenly Cynthia Lennox gathered her up in her arms under her great fur-lined cloak, and carried her a little farther down the street, then across it to a dwelling-house, one of the very few which had withstood the march of business blocks on this crowded main street of the provincial city.