The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1015, June 10, 1899

Vol. XX.—No. 1015.]
JUNE 10, 1899.
A STORY FOR GIRLS.
By EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN, Author of “Greyfriars,” “Half-a-dozen Sisters,” etc.
“THE MAN GRINNED AND SHOOK HIS HEAD.”
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AFTER-EFFECTS AND CYRIL.
The whole place was in a tumult. The streets were thronged. Passionate inquiries and greetings were passing from mouth to mouth. The chief thing was to get the girls under cover as quickly as possible, out of the hubbub all round the municipal buildings. The Bensons threw open their house; the Cossarts did the same. Sheila soon found herself, together with May Lawrence and Miss Adene, in her aunt’s drawing-room, where Raby and Ray had preceded them, and they were received with the warmest effusion by the company gathered there, for in the confusion and alarm nobody was confidently reckoned to be safe till he or she had been actually seen.
North came in a few minutes later.
“Effie has been taken straight home in our uncle’s carriage. We could not get at you, Sheila, so Oscar is to take you back later on, when the excitement is abated. Are the girls there? That’s all right. Yes, mater, I am safe enough; but don’t keep me. There are frantic mothers hunting up their children still. I believe no lives have been lost; but I must go and do what I can to reassure them. We must find the waifs and strays, and get them to their right owners!”