Polly of Lady Gay Cottage

?" Patricia inquired of Polly, as they l

hospital at seven o'clock, and we

iously. "Mamma and I were comin

s she

d Patricia. "She is

ew cases; if there are, he has to stay. But you can come

ants to see your father on some very

it were funny,"

to pass-lovely, too! Oh,

asked Polly, her

mma, fair and square, that I wouldn

talk about it, then, beca

ing Polly's arm. "I do wish I could tell

ed Polly; "but if it is your moth

gle. "It's about you-oh, I mustn't!"

bout it! I'm afraid you'll tell more than your mother will like. Let's

wouldn't care much about the mu

of a happening in the Latin class. By the time the little cot

mother; but Dr. Dudley did not return from the hospital, and the mysterious "busi

. There was a note of tenseness in the atmosphere. Polly felt it vaguely as she threw off hat a

Illingworth this after

s instan

business?

es

wistfully, her

you about it," he said,

ested his wife. "Stay

g dreadful, this mysterious "business"? They smiled

in, and leaned forward,

you for her sist

r forehead. "I don't see why it i

e you to come and l

They might know I wouldn't. Did you s'pose I

ey shook

tor went on. "She thinks she can give you greater adv

sn't Miss Townsend's school as good for me as it is for Patricia and Davi

laughed. Mrs. Dudley's a

rs. Illingworth offers you a thousand dollars,

ood rushed to Po

were for sale?" s

down for a kiss and

price tag," her fathe

neck, and print on it, 'Not for sale.' As if money'd make up for you

' (I heard you tell mother, the other day, that you thought she was beautiful), 'and I'll

d the Doctor. "He m

Mrs. Jocelyn didn't offer me money, but 'twas just the same. I don't want to b

enough to satisfy Polly. "If you wen

ly, "and you can tell Mrs. Illingworth

n contentedly in

or Patricia,

knew Polly

her mother's lap, and she said no, she was too big a girl. She is hardly any taller than I am. She didn't say it a bit as if she thought so hersel

rds of caress, grateful that to Polly it was giv

f her mother's offer; but the friendship of the new cousins