THE RAINBOW BOOK Molly hopped on one foot
in suppressed
ex-
citement. " Your
father /' exclaimed the kindly clerk, back the coin. " Why, how old are you ? handing " Thank " Ten," replied Alec. you." " And so your father married at the age of ten or thereabouts, did he ? Dear me very precocious " exclaimed the clerk, with such a serious of him face that the children felt quite uncomfortable. They had not considered the matter in Their faces fell, and they felt that light at all. such a wish they had never come that without a word of explanation they turned and fled. They were glad to be once more outside the building, and thankful to find the cabman still there waiting to take them back, and in their discomfiture he '
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was hailed by them joyfully
as a dear old friend.
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Home said Alec, when they were inside. "And where might that happen to be?" asked !
the driver with interest.
womanlike, jumped at a conclusion. she wailed, and burst into tears, We're lost and it was only when she was in sight of her Molly,
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own
nursery windows that she was comforted, Without any inquiry, and smiled once more. all their remaining savings were emptied into the
palm of the delighted driver, who bowed acknowledgments repeatedly.
willing his
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