Page 89 - The Little sister of Wilifred

some mean joke off on Mr, Inlander,”

she whispered, with tears.
She waited until she heard him go

down stairs, and knew that he was out
of the house, and then went into his

room and looked about it as if to find
some explanation of his strange conduct,

t[ Why had he meddled with Mr.
Bolander’s papers ? 11 she asked herself

anxiously.

On his own table were a number of
well written sheets of paper. One of

these as Peggy touched it slipped out,
and fell from the table into the waste­

basket beneath. A slam of the front
door now hurried Peggy from the room.,

in which she had no wish to be caught.
In the morning she meant to put the

sheet of paper in its place with the
others; but there was no time then, and

in the mean time, if Mr. Fullerton had a