I've got blankets warming by the fire, and my tea-kettle on, and I'm going to be the one to depend on when she's brought home." Mrs.Zelotes gave a glance of defiant faith from the window down the road as she spoke.

Then she settled back in her chair and resumed her Bible, and dismissed the tall and forbidding woman whom she had summoned to save the honor of her family resolutely from her conscience.

The editors of _The Spy_ and _The Observer_ had a row of ingratiating photographs of little Ellen from three weeks to seven years of age; and their opinions as to the cause of her disappearance, while fully agreeing in all points of sensationalism with those of young Bemis, of _The Star_, differed in detail.
Young Bemis read about the mysterious kidnapper, and wondered, and the demand for _The Star_ was chiefly among the immediate neighbors of the Brewsters.

Both _The Observer_ and _The Spy_ doubled their circulation in one day, and every face on the night cars was hidden behind poor little Ellen's baby countenances and the fairy-story of the witch-woman who had lured her away.

Mothers kept their children carefully in-doors that evening, and pulled down curtains, fearful lest She look in the windows and be tempted.