You can tell her all the interesting news about your friends!" XI THE BABY AND THE BIRD When Ellis, after this rebuff, had disconsolately taken his leave, Clara, much elated at the righteous punishment she had inflicted upon the slanderer, ran upstairs to the nursery, and, snatching Dodie from Mammy Jane's arms, began dancing gayly with him round the room.

Lower and lower it sank,she was powerless to save it or to accompany it,until, gasping wildly for breath, it threw up its little hands and sank, the cruel water gurgling over its head,when she awoke with a start and a chill, and lay there trembling for several minutes before she heard little Dodie in his crib, breathing heavily.