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"Oh!" she shrieked "You er I worried so about you that hed with the rest, but quickly sobered "I'lad you were able to take care of poor Uncle Otto," she said "I shall miss him so None of you knew him as I did" There was a pause, then Charley went on, "Just think of Ernest's sister couely She's like you, isn't she, Ernest?"

"Not a bit," said Roger "She's full of pep and very good looking"

"Well, what do you know about that?" asked Ernest, looking at Roger wonderingly

"She's going to stay with us, isn't she? Please say yes," cried Charley

"Oh, no, don't have her here She wouldn't like to be here all the tier's chair She refused half tearfully to explain her stately, then in a coher to his side

"Oh, let her alone, Dicky," begged Charley "Why insist on a child's reason for anything?"

"But I want to know! Tell me, Felicia, don't you like it here?"

"Yes," said Felicia, with treet sick and are so awful cross with me and Charley and make Charley cry I wouldn't want Elsa to see you that way"

Dick turned purple "Oh, well," cut in Roger, quickly, "Elsa'll have three men's crossness to put up with down at our camp, Felicia Just think of that! And if it should happen that we'd all get cross at once, probably we'd blow the roof of the engine house off again"

"That's ant Elsa to stay with us," said Ernest "You see whena nice girl around to make theets too et a squaw to come by our camp to vip us bad boys for Fräulein Elsa, eh?"

"If all the et cross, like you, Dicky," asked Felicia, wonderingly, "why do ladies marry them?"

"They don't, chicken! No one's ested Felicia

"Maybe Roger, he gets her, eh?" asked Gustav

"Oh, no!" in sudden alarer's knee to look up into his face with a depth of love in her brown eyes that tightened his throat as he lifted her into his lap "Roger's going to er, if ever you're as cross to me as you were to Gustav, I shall just walk out of the house and never, never come back"