The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-03

done what YOU think-she is sorry, and
you're not giving her chsncef' At this
last word q general sob and vail sounded in
the room; there was q confused tsngle of
god locks and dark locks upon the bed.
confused cry of "Dolly, don'tP and "DJlly,
shouldn't have thought" which was in
terrupted BY q voice from the floor. 1t was
the voice of Florry wainwright. "Girls,
girls, look herel' She was sit
ting near the overturned table amid broben
plates and scattered dsinties. The empty
basket was in her lap. She had just taken
9 paper from the bottom of it which she
was regarding intently. There was some.
thing in her voice which made every girl
listen-something in her face which the
next moment made every girl jump down
off the bed and cluster round her on the
floor. As they did go. Florry pushed the
paper towards them, and ssid; Girls. this
is Julia Norriss missing problem; it was at
the bottom Of this missing basket. What
does it mean7"
Dolly jumped TO her feet, stood for mo-
ment with her lips parted, her eyes dilated
with some new thought, then she rushed
from the room and tore down the hall. The
next instant Miss Weston, one of the teach
ers was astonished to see Dolly Lincoln
with ear.stsined cheeks and swollen eyes,
standing before her, to hear her ask:
"Mss Weston, was it bag or basket
that Julia Norris left in charge of FanRy
Drsyton when she went to see her mother
in New York;"
1T was basketball pretty Fayal bas-
ket. Why do you ssk2"
Then Dolly told her story. Miss Weston
was only herself q girl OF
eighteen, and she got quite as
excited as Dolly as she listened TO this story,
and she took Dolly's hand and ran with
er down the great hall to where the little
group of girls sat on the door puzzling and
bordering over the problem.
ayes, o. course it's the missing problemP
she exclsimed; "and you found it at the
bottom of the basket. / asked julia again
and again il she bad searched her basket
thoroughly when she got it back, and she
was so positive, as she always Is. l ought
to have looked myself l ought to have
remembered that Julia is the most imps-
tient girl ~ d constantly mixing up and
overlooking her things but she was go sure.
Oh, dearl where's FannyH
"rlI fetch her." and Dolly tore down the
hall again on her happy errsnd. How can
ever picture the scene that ensued2 How
can ever make you see Fanny, with her
winklng, blinking, Dear-sighted eyes look
ing and listening and gradually taking il
all in-that the problem had been found
where she had put it-tbat everybody was
happy and sorry in breath. and asking her
pardon and trying to kiss her
and make much of her
The crown of everything came,
when suddenly Dolly pounced upon the
sixth robins egg, the one "let over" and
made Fanny the sixth member of the
Robins Ring Club. And such good time
as they had after wards. They SAT up until
half-past nine O'Clock, and Miss Weston sat
with them, and laughed and told stories as
gsyly as any Of them, and at the end when
one after another of the girls said they
never, never had had such good time in
their lives before, Miss Weston declared
that she had certainly never had better
time; whereupoD, Dolly pullei of her
Robins Egg ring and asker Mss Weston if
she felt too big and too old to belong to
their club; and Miss Weston said she
should be only too delighted to belong, but
she didn't want to rob Dolly of her ring;
but Dolly wasn't going to stop for such a
trifie rs that, she was sure she could get
another. So "on her very littlest finger"
Miss Weston put DJlly's Robins Egg
ring; and there she wears it TO this day,
as sign and seal of her membership of the
Robins Ring Club, and OF that delightful
evening when they were all so sorry and
happy together, at D0lly's Christmas
Kettledrum.