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CHAPTER VI.

CARROTS ‘ALL ZIGHT’’ AGAIN.

“ When next the summer breeze comes by,
And waves the bush, the flower is dry.”
WALTER SCOTT.

FLoss crept up-stairs to the dressing-room
door. It was locked. Though the key was.
in the lock, she knew she must not turn it ;:
and even had it been open she would not have:
dared to go in, after her father’s forbidding it.
But she thought she might venture to speak
to Carrots, to comfort him a little, through
the door. She was dreadfully afraid that he
might feel frightened in there alone if it got
dark before he was released ; for sometimes he
was afraid of the dark —he was such a little
boy, remember.

Floss tapped at the door.

“ Carrots,” she said, “are you there?”