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"Where are you all going? Where's Charley?" asked Felicia

"She's nearly frantic about you," exclai to look for you"

Felicia's liquid eyes widened with sudden understanding "Put o to Charley"

"Here she co Felicia set her basket in the sand and rushed into her sister's ar at once Charley, still clasping Felicia, listened, then looked down on the curly head resting against her heart

"Felicia, how could you be so naughty," she asked gently

"Now, don't you scold her, Charley," protested Dick

"Do I ever scold any one, Dick? Only Feliciathat she ain"

"How do you erous?" asked Felicia "Did I make you feel badly, Charley?"

"You made me sick at heart with fear, Felicia," replied Charley

Felicia gave a great sob "Oh, I wouldn't do that for anything!"

"I o on over to the Sun Plant and that the two ladies talk this over after supper And I'll carry Felicia pig-a-back"

The motion was unanimously carried Ernest went up to help Dick with the chores and Roger and Gustav prepared supper while Charley sat on the bench with Felicia in her lap, and directed operations The pot of beans and the biscuit she had brought in the basketa si She sat with the young people during their , unexpectedly, to kiss Charley

Felicia went to sleep when half way through supper, just after she had given Roger his present

"It's a little clock," she said, holding out a se, rusty and battered "I found it in one of the sheds up on the er looked at it curiously "That was an expensive gauge in its day," he said "How do you suppose she happened to find it?"

"Harder not to find it," replied Dick "The ranges are full of deserted old, then tried to work out the rest, found it too expensive, went broke and walked out There's enough fine machinery up in the mountains to oes into the ground than ever colad to know that," he said "Felicia's given irl?"