ILLUSTRATIONS

[ "A minister's wife! You look more
like a little girl's baby doll." . . . . . . Frontispiece ]

[ "Silly old goose," she murmured. ]

[ Carol, with an inarticulate sob,
gathered her baby in her arms. ]

[ "I beg your pardon," she said, sweetly,
unsmilingly, "I did not mean to be rude." ]