"Isn't it a darling?" she said happily. "Father always gives me what I most want."
"Let's see the wheels go round," suggested Phil, and Ruth opened the case to find a little picture of her father, taken since he went away, and looking so very like him that for a moment she could hardly speak.
"That's my father," she said when she could find her voice. Both girls and boys crowded around to look at the kind, handsome face gazing at them from out the little watch, and Ruth's heart swelled with pride and affection as she listened to their admiring remarks.
"Let's show them the game we tried the other night," said Dorothy to her brother as they all returned to the music-room.
"Oh, that's too hard for them," answered Frank with affected superiority. "They couldn't guess anything so difficult as that."
"Try it and see," clamored two or three voices.
So Frank with one finger drew a large circle in the air, and with elaborate gestures made two points for the eyes and a line each for nose and mouth. As he did so he recited solemnly:
"The moon is large and full and round; Two eyes, a nose and mouth."
"Now see if you can do it just as I did," he said to Jack, who sat next him.
Jack tried, imitating as nearly as he could remember all of Frank's peculiar movements of hand and arm, but as he finished Dorothy and Frank shouted, "No; not right."