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Updated: June 8, 2025
The little girl opened her eyes and slipped her arm around her mother's neck and then, as she noticed so many folks looking at her, she hid her sleepy eyes in her mother's shoulder. "Don't you be afraid, little girl," said the floorman, in great relief, "we like little girls who know enough not to get lost. It was better to stay right there and go to sleep than to run around and hunt your father.
John fought his way to the nearest floorman, a white-haired veteran of many such rush seasons. "Where's the neckties?" he asked. That employee looked down at him wearily. "Next to the last aisle to your right."
She saw the wrapper girl high up in her box between the counters. She saw the busy clerks and floorman come and go. She saw the many shoppers grown folks and children that passed by her seat. And the more folks she saw, the lonesomer she became; sitting there all by herself among so many folks.
Father's five minutes lengthened out to ten and then his friend stepped into the elevator and Mr. Merrill hurried back to his little girl. "You must excuse me, dear," he said as he approached where he had left her, "but I hadn't seen Tom in ten years and " But there was no little girl there! Mr. Merrill called the floorman and asked about her.
Finally it came time to meet Mrs. Merrill and Alice so Mr. Merrill, knowing that they would be uneasy if he was late, hurried down to meet them and all three came back to resume the search that by now was getting pretty anxious. "There's no need of your hunting on any other floor," said Mrs. Merrill as the floorman suggested that maybe Mary Jane had gone to hunt her father and had lost her way.
"I left her only ten minutes ago," he said as he looked at his watch, "and she wouldn't run off I know Mary Jane wouldn't run off. She must be here." "We'll find her," said the floorman, easily, "she must be in some other aisle." They hunted up and down and up and down the aisles and they looked at many little girls the store was full of them. But not a sign of Mary Jane did they see.
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