"The Wind Fairies carried Freddy right to our garden and there Virginia and Doris found him, none the worse for his wonderful adventure!"
"Freddy must have enjoyed it and your little girls must have been very glad to get Freddy back again!" said Marcella. "Raggedy Ann went up in the air on the tail of a kite one day and fell and was lost, so now I am very careful with her!"
"Would you let me take Raggedy Ann for a few days?" asked the new friend.
Marcella was silent. She liked the stranger friend, but she did not wish to lose Raggedy Ann.
"I will promise to take very good care of her and return her to you in a week. Will you let her go with me, Marcella?"
Marcella finally agreed and when the stranger friend left, he placed Raggedy Ann in his grip.
"It is lonely without Raggedy Ann!" said the dollies each night.
"We miss her happy painted smile and her cheery ways!" they said.
And so the week dragged by....