The car was slowing up. It stopped before a white house with trees and a garden surrounding it. The gentleman and his daughter, with Tina in her arms, got out.
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They went inside the house. Tony saw the front door close behind them. He slid down from the back of the automobile. He ran to the house and crouched under a window. He could look right into a room.
He saw a sweet-faced woman greet the little girl and her father. She kissed them both. Then she noticed Tina in the child's arms.
"Why, Anna!" she exclaimed. "It is your little dog that was lost!"
The girl named Anna laughed happily. She showed pearly teeth. Her whole face lit up with joy.
"Yes, Mama, it is Niki," she said. "At last we have found her! I am so happy!"
The father told how they had discovered Niki in the Marionette theatre.