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Rh why do you go barefoot? Nurse scolds me if I do!"

"Where 's my servant?" repeated the little girl; and receiving no reply from the bewildered Bobby, stamped her tiny foot on the floor.

"Can't you speak?" she went on in an injured tone. "I should think you was deaf!"

"I don't know what you want," said Bobby. "You 're so funny, you know! I think you 'd better go back to bed, or they 'll punish you."

To this friendly warning, Moti paid no attention, but raising her shrill treble, called at its loudest:

"Dilâl! Dilâl! quickly!"

"Now you 've done it!" ejaculated her young cousin, and as the sound of hurrying steps came along the passage, he hid his head under the bedclothes. It was so hot there, however, that he was unable to bear it, and, hearing no sounds of