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To keep them nearer to The Gates, To call them in again?" These lines had always appealed to Cora in spite of their faulty rhyme, and, in glancing at the little girl in the chair, she understood why. "This is my daughter Wren," said the woman, "and I should have introduced myself. I am Mrs. Salvey Mrs. Ruth Salvey." The girls gracefully acknowledged the introductions.
The judge raised his head in that careful manner characteristic of serious thought. "And what do you ask?" he inquired. Cecilia thought she or Mrs. Salvey would never get a chance to speak to deny those dreadful accusations. "We ask, your honor," and the man's voice betrayed confidence, "that this child be turned over to the Children's Society.
She looked almost boyish. "Better let me call Aunt Salvey," he said as they neared the cottage. "But there she is waiting for us." Cecilia urged the Turtle slightly ahead, then stopped suddenly. She was almost nervous with suppressed excitement. "All ready?" she asked as Mrs. Salvey greeted first her, then the young man. "Yes.
And he never came back." "Oh!" gasped Cora involuntarily. Cecilia bent so close to Wren that her breath stirred the brown ringlets over the child's ears. "But, of course," declared the child vehemently, "he will come back. If not here in some other world." "Dear," said Mrs. Salvey, "you had better make your story a little short.
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