; she must be wrong, she was not dreaming. The sounds were too real. The sobs were clo

tone, putting out her hand and taking hold of Mo

the matter. Please go to sleep again, B

at troubles you," pleaded Barbara, who was now wide awake. "If you are not ill,

head in her pillow and

," Bab c

n!" whispered Moll

he President's reception. "Oh, yes. I have not had an opportunity to ask you wh

amed," Mol

ollie meant, but she knew her sis

I did not exactly buy it, for I did not have the money to pay for it. But H

ie?" Bab inquired quietly, althou

" Mollie returned in a

t mind how long we take to pay her back. We must just save up and do some kind of work when we go home. I can coach some of the girls at school. So please don't

he thought if Mollie could once get to sleep, she could then puzzle out some method by which they c

told you the worst," Mollie

n?" poor Bab asked, real

id not pay her at once she would take her bill straight to Mr. Hamlin and demand the money. Now Harriet is almost frightened to death. She says her father will never forgive her, if he finds out how deeply in debt she is, and that he would not let her go out into society again this winter. Of course, Harriet went to see Madame Louise. She begged her for a little more time, and the dressmaker consented to let us have a week. But she says that at the end of th

breath. Somehow her own voice sounded unfamiliar, it was so hoarse a

he money? I should be horribly ashamed to tell her what I have done. Bu

e has been so awfully good to us, that I can't ask her. She has already done so much for us and she would be so ple

can do, Bab. I have worried and worried until I am nearly desper

difficulty. Don't worry any more about it now." Bab kissed her sister's burning cheeks, whereat Mollie could only thr

o rose color, and the rose to the blue of the day-time sky. She heard several families of sparrow

er on her first trip to Newport. There was also the beautiful ruby, which had been Mr. Presby's gift to her from the rich stores of his buried treasure. A

what a pawn shop was. But she did know that at pawn shops people were able to borrow money at a high rate

? And how was she to find her way there, without being

r these difficulties when

her home in a few hours. I have just been up to inquire about her. Father," continued Harriet, turning to Mr. Hamlin, "Miss Moore wants me to thank you for your kindness in bringing her here, and to say she hopes to be a

"Lieutenant Wilson declares the girl was struck a glancing blow on the head with

ut in the grounds looking for some one, when she was knocked down from behind. She never saw who struck her. How perfectly ridiculous

ingly hard. It cannot always be pleasant for a refined young woman to do the work she is sometimes

ociety news for her paper inside the reception rooms, rather than outside in the dark. It looks to me as

sponse to Harriet's unkind remark and they were all

Moore dressed in a shabby serge suit, lying on the bed looking pale and weak. A refined, middle-aged woman, with a sad face,

eason for persuading you to join me, a reason that I thought important to your happiness, not to mine. But I cannot tell you what it was, now; perhaps because I may have made a mistake. I must have been struck by a tramp, who had managed to hide in the White House grounds.

e Moore was too poor to do that. She would have liked to ask the newspaper girl where she could find a pawn s

ectionately, and said she was glad to know she wa