Keineth

ed at the luncheon table. He wore the satisfied air

ot?" Peggy ans

s attention upon his pl

a new sending set!

ther! I'll bet you sa

nding set?" a

Billy answered, with a kin

t you had to save three dollars

s going to make another and he says I can use this one until I want to buy it or

, "I suppose we'll live on onion

, it might be better to wait until you have th

se foolish things," Barbara put in. "He d

s are foolish! You read all sorts of th

ing ship

Billy's face blazed with wrath.

o is a wireless operator in the Canadi

tice I can try the troop exams ne

Clark's and tell Alice to come home at once. N

uddenly alarmed, "Janet Clar

g houses. Mrs. Lee had returned to the house at noon and Nora had told her t

t been there that morning! It was not like Alice to be long away from home.

ir mother's face that it had never worn before! Like a shock its agony pierced into each child's heart! Very white, Billy rushed off to enlist the services of his boy friends for a thorough

running dow

is gone, Mammy, an

ces of the china pig which had held Alice's collection of pennies. "I

ly, putting an arm about each child. "Yo

at a small candy store and had purchased a selection of lolly-pops. She had paid for them in pennies. Someone in

owd at the city station no one had seen the child! And Bi

their father say. Then Mrs. Lee suddenly sa

ge!" they heard

, for no one could eat a mouthful. Peggy had run to her room

Allie lots of times and maybe she's de

ir arms tight about one another and listened as though in

im to show, and feeling the bitterness of his youth and his uselessness, slowly mounted the stairs to the corner of the attic which was his own particular den. The nickel of his beloved wireless apparatu

swer would come back. However, finding relief in doing somethi

e through the air. Every nerve in his body tingled a response! It was Freddie Murdock--they had often talked back and forth across the lake from where, on the

tairs straight into his mother's arms! She clung to him, burying the

laughing, Barbara reached her father on the t

Lee carried her off for a warm bath and bed, while Nora, her

nnies. She walked from here to Middletown, took the trolley there for the city. On the trolley she saw a party of picnickers headed for Midway Beach and she just walked along with them. It was very simple. She watched the merry-go-rounds and spent all her pennies! When it began to grow dark she laid down on the beach and fe

father's and mother's. She wished awfully that her mother would come to her! With a child's instinct she had read on her mother's face the suffering she had caused. Sudden

aw her mother's face bending over her. With a l

e back! I don't ever, ever, ever want to go away alone! I thought it would be fun--I

mfort and forgiveness, and the loving arms did no

g, "the family will present to you with their c

seful?" Billy crie