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 about town, I intend to search them to-morrow."

"Nathalie would never dare stay in an unoccupied house, alone, all night," said Susan. "I am sure that I should not have had the courage at her age."

"But you never had her temper to back your courage," returned the husband. "You must remember that Nattie is angry, and, when that is the case, she dares do almost anything."

"I guess that this dreary midnight in a lone house will take her temper down pretty low," said the young wife. "And she wore nothing away but a light blanket. She will suffer bitterly, and, perhaps, get cold and die from the effects of this rashness."

"Believe me, Nattie will manage in some way to keep her precious little body comfortable," said Mr. Stone.

"She can't possibly do that, if she is out of doors now, or in a cold house," returned the wife. "But I am thinking what we shall do, if