126 MADGE’S MISTAKE,

What with the miserable state of my
mind, and the intense heat, I really do feel
ill and faint, and am very thankful when
Father finds a chair in a comparatively cool
corner, and ensconces me therein.

I must be looking pale too, for he hurries
off to the counter and gives an order. Be-
fore he returns to me, however, I see some-
thing which revives me completely, and
causes me to sit up straight in my chair.