Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

The German gentleman doll thanked
her in his heart, but doll law forbade
him TO speak.
And just then there came rap at
the door. 1t was little Jennie Dear
born and Mildred Alice They had
come to play but when they heard
Mary Marcela's news, even Mildred
Alice. who was not generally to be
subdued, looked pale
THAT big girl, Miss Crosby, once
stayed until August, but then she could
stand it no longer, and she ran away
to friends house, when she hadn't
even been asked" recounted Jennie
Mildred Alice went over to the win
dow, where the German gentleman doll
still lay on the sill. There was a great
fund of tender sentiment in his saw
dust heart and he longed ardently to
do something to assuage the grief of
his little mistress. Besides, if he could
perform one valiant deed he felt that
he might win the regard of Miss Fan
chon, the Partisan doll who persisted
in an unwarranted admiration for the
Young Brave of the Wabash, as the
Indian doll was called. But the laws
Of the doll kingdom were ineXorable;
he could not move even a tot.
Mildred Alice jumped up in the sea
beside him. Perhaps his blue glass
eyes expressed what he really felt de-
spite the adamantine doll law. Ger
tainly no one ever knew what made
Mildred Alice ever do it; but suddenly,
with one swish of her skirt the Ger
man gentleman doll fell straight out
of the window and down into the gar
den. Mary Marcella screamed, and so
did Jennie, but Mildred Alice, who had
lc oked out to see where the German
gentleman fell, laughed heartlessly.
"Oh, Mary Marcella," she cried
1T is very funny. L am so sorry for
Frederick Won Telramund, but he has
hit your papa on the head"
1t was perfectly true, Frederick Won
Telramund could not have made al
better calculation if he had leaped out
OH purpose.
Mary Marcella's papa was aston
ished. Miss Fantorne was astonished
and suspicious. If there had not been
visitor, Miss Fanthorne would have
said at once that it was all Mildred
Alice's fault.
But Miss Mum only laughed.
Even the German gentleman doll is
displeased," she said.
Mary Marcela's papa was not always
Mum curiously.
"Why was he displeased?' he said,
holding the bruised and battered Fred
erick most uncomfortably by the head.
Miss Fanthorne was far enough ahead
to be out of hearing, and Miss Mum
took courage. "Well," she said, "II
hope you will not be offended, but
think, he wanted you to know that he
didn't care about spending the summer
at ST. Ursua's.'
Mary Marcela's papa turned the gem
tlemap doll right side up and regarded
him attentively.
1T would be-perhaps, lonely?" he
suggested.
For German gentleman doll" said
Miss Mum.
And for an American little girl"
added Mary Marcella's papa.
And so, after all, Mary Marcella did
not stay at st. Ursula's for the long
vacation. She went abroad with her
papa. and the German gentleman doll
and Miss Fanchon accompanied her.
In fact 1t was their honeymoon.
Miss Fanthorne always said that
Mary Marcella's papa was a very
man and that Mildred Alice
was very naughty girl, but when
Mary Marcela came back In the fall
she brought presents for everybody she
knew very well. Among them was
very best gift for Miss Mum and
very best gift for Jennie Dearborn, and
a third very best gift for Mildred Alice.
ALICE LATIMER.