84 Make-Beleve

place? I thought that only children
might come in the procession ?”

‘They are all children in the picture,”
said Doris, doubtfully.

“JT thought so,” answered her friend.

“Do you think I might be the crowd at
the grave? I would like to come in some-
where.” ,
Doris almost forgot her sorrow in her
“joy at this solution of the difficulty. “That
will be just right,” she said. ‘Will you
go down and wait ?”

She turned away and looked down upon
the doll. The Visitor paused at the door
of the studio, and saw her lift the veil
which covered the thing’s face, and look
down tenderly. Then she took it in her
arms and held it to her breast, lifting
it very gently, lest the eyes, which were
now decorously. closed, should open and
remind her of yesterday, when the grief of
to-day was unforeseen. He noted also a
box of yellowish cardboard that lay on
the floor hard by, and then disdaining to