Page 74 - The Little sister of Wilifred

she threw herself down on her cot. As
she lay there a great many thoughts

came swarming into her little head, —
thoughts principally of the home and

the kind matron there, who used to tell
her sometimes of the day she and a little

twin sister were first brought to her, and
'
O
the pretty way they played together,
like two kittens, on the floor, A gen­
tleman had come, at length, and carried

away her little sister. He had adopted

her as a child of his own, Peggy was
told, and she would probably never see
her again.

But this sometimes seemed to her too

cruel to believe. When she first came
to the Bagievs’, in the terrible loneliness

of the big houseful of people, all careless
of herself, she thought continually of the

matron's story, and comforted herself
with the belief that some time she would