She sat up on the side of the bed to eat it.

“When did you leave your lady?” he inquired, as he seated himself on a chair near her.

“Oh! I don’t know. I—I—I——No! it’s no use—I don’t know. It was—was—ever so long ago,” sighed the child.

“Were you lost?”

“Yes; I lost myself. I went out to try to find Lady; and she found me.”

“Lady found you?”

“Oh, no; of course not! If Lady had found me I shouldn’t be here, looking this way,” said the elf, rather indignantly.

“Then who found you?”

“The nasty old woman, of course.”

“Ah! And what then?”