28 DOTTY DIMPLE.

can go with me and inquire for your little
sister. Then you can ride again, for ’m
going as far as Munjoy.”

So saying, the man took Prudy out in his
arms. She knew it was rather odd for a
little girl like her to be going around to
people’s back doors with a stranger in a
blue blouse; but it was all for Dotty’s
sake,

The man knocked with the handle of
his whip, and a neat-looking servant girl
appeared.

“Have you seen anything of a stray
child?” was his first question.

* My little sister,” cried Prudy, in breath-
less haste. “She had on a pink dress, and
curls bareheaded.”

“We have seen no such child pass this
way,” replied the girl, civilly. Prudy’s

eager face fell.