The maid mechanically obeyed her, and appeared greatly relieved to have some one assume the responsibility of attending to her charge.
The proprietor of the store had once been a practising physician, and into his care Mollie gave the little one. She had already begun to revive, and now manifested considerable fear at finding herself in the arms of a strange gentleman, who, after looking her over carefully, said that she was uninjured.
Mollie was very sweet and gentle with her, and she was more than half-reassured before the familiar face of her nurse appeared, when she lapsed from tears to smiles, and was soon chatting like a magpie, in French, with them both.
The perambulator also had escaped serious injury, greatly to the surprise of every one, and little Lucille, as the child was named, was ere long comfortably settled among her pillows and being trundled homeward by the thankful Nannette.
Mollie walked a short distance with them, for she saw that the girl was still greatly overcome from the shock which she had sustained, and she kindly strove to reassure her, but cautioned her never to let go the handle of the perambulator when she was on the street with the little one.
She left them at the next corner, where they were to turn, having persuaded Lucille to kiss her and given her address to Nannette, who begged to know where she lived, so that she might come to thank her again when she was more herself; then she hailed an approaching car, and returned to her own cares and responsibilities.
The further experiences of the personages in this story will be related in the sequel to this story entitled “The Heatherford Fortune,” published in style and price uniform with this volume.
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