Polly of Lady Gay Cottage

ey had gone for his usual round at the hospital, that

rom the little ma

ed paper from an inner pocket. He put it in Polly's hand with an impress

all as if she were in a hurry to discover her chances towards millionaire

sion of acknowledgments, he rubbed his lea

a autymobile this aft

" Polly b

, an' when that autymobile driv' up this afternoon, you'd oughter seen her eyes! It was a stylish one, I tell

oment, smiling at

had such a nice r

's got her good streaks, and you can coax her into 'most anything. Now when we was whirlin' along there through Cat-hole Pass, on that slick road, I just broached the subjec'. Couldn't

to make certain it's all right?" Eager that his service sh

, unfolded the sheet. One glance at the closely-written first page, the smil

a! Oh, mamma

le man was there first. Gathering Polly tenderl

just that way when Susie went. There! cry right on my shoulder-it'll do y

Mrs. Dudley could barely make out

ly broke out plaintively. "That's what she u

w! I know! It's hard

houlder again, and pr

lways tag me round, from cellar to attic, goin' with me fur's I'd let her when I went to work, and runnin' to meet me when I come home. And thinks I, 'S'pose Susie's goin' to stay up in Heaven away from me? No, sir! She's ta

s, more-than you do her, an' do you think she stays away from you?

s'pose that?" cri

r' 's nothin' in all God's universe so strong as love, and so what is there to keep love away

Susie and I git on all right together without talkin', and if she's got anything to say to me that I can understand she'll say it right to me, and not to somebody she's never

s smiling again, and she read that portion of her letter which gave the addresses of her father's relatives. She told Mr. Bean all about the wonderful discovery of Floyd Westwood through a birthday rose, and found that an address in the lett