16 DAISY

reached the corner of the street. “That child
seems to have taken quite a fancy to you, | said
quietly ; “T never before knew her to show so much

interest in any one.’

“1 don’t know why she does,” he answered
awkwardly, and with some impatience, “unless it is
owing to my having spoken to her the other day.
When | went to engage my room, she was sitting
in a corner alone, and | gave her a picture |
happened to have in my pocket.” He stopped
suddenly. e det motutell ime thencron adel
find out until long afterward, that the little, lonely
side had del im of a decd Geter of he
and that when he gave her the picture, he gave
her a kiss with it.

| made some trite remark about the softening

and good influences a child can throw around