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He tossed the monkey over to Tania, who cuddled it affectionately in her arms, and began talking softly to it. Then Captain Jules seated himself on the grass and the houseboat girls gathered about him in a circle. He put one great hand in his pocket. "I've some presents for you," he announced, trying to look very serious, but smiling in spite of himself. "What are they?" asked Lillian eagerly.
Curtis something of the charity work that he had recently done in New York City and so brought the subject about to Tania. "Dear Mrs. Curtis, you are so generous," the young man said admiringly. "I have just learned that after the summer holiday is over you intend to send Miss Morton's protégé, Tania, to a boarding school. It is so kind in you." Mrs. Curtis shook her head.
He, therefore, did not intend to be balked in his plan by either Madge or Tania, no matter what desperate measures he had to employ. So there were two persons at Cape May who came to believe that they stood in dire need of money.
In the crowd of curious onlookers she caught sight of Mabel Farrar's and Roy Dennis's sneering faces. "Tania!" she cried sharply. "What in the world are you doing? Stop taking that money at once!" Tania glanced around and discovered Madge. Instead of looking ashamed of herself, the child's face grew radiant.
"I was trying to make up my mind, Madge, if this place was as beautiful as my kingdom in Fairyland," answered Tania seriously, "and I believe it is." "Have you a kingdom in Fairyland, little Tania?" inquired Phil gently. She did not understand the child's odd fancies, as Madge did. Tania nodded her head quietly. "Of course I have," she returned simply.
On the morning of the fourth day of her imprisonment Tania awoke with a start. Something had knocked on her window pane. It was only the old cedar tree, and Tania turned over in bed with a sob. But the tapping went on. She got up and went to her window. Quick as a flash Tania made up her mind to run away. Why had she never thought of it before?
A moment later the mysterious, sinister visitor picked the child up in his arms and bore her swiftly and quietly away from the shelter of the houseboat and her beloved friends. The little girl was very slender, yet her abductor staggered as he walked. He had something besides Tania that he was carrying.
I thought that all poor people lived in slums and took in washing like old Sal." Madge laughed. "I don't suppose the people in the tenements are as poor as we are sometimes, Tania, because they don't need so many things. But don't worry your head about me, little Fairy Godmother. I am sure that you will bring me good luck."
She must be sent away at once." But Madge shook her head with a decision that was unmistakable. "No," she answered quietly, "Tania shall not be sent away. None of you understand, and I can't explain it to you now, but Tania thought she was doing something for Nellie and me. She was foolish, of course, and I will see that she never does it again."
Twice every month he was made to go to see old Sal Murphy in her tenement home on the East Side. Philip Holt, who now went by the name of his foster parents, fairly loathed these visits. It was because of his hatred of them that he began to take his spite out on Tania when he was a lad of about fifteen, and poor Tania a baby of only six years old.
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