"Yes. And papa said we must be real kind to her, for she hasn't any papa or mamma now."
"Yes, we will. I guess—Oh! there's papa, now. And—oh! Marion! Rebie's crying. Let's go kiss her."
Out ran the two little girls, while mamma stood in the doorway with little Ernest, and aunt Maria stood on the steps.
Little Rebie couldn't help crying, yet she liked her new home for all that. But her cousins kissed her so lovingly, that Rebie soon smiled through her tears.
And when baby Ernest said, "Ernie love oo, tousin Rebie," she laughed a soft little laugh. Then they thought Rebie wouldn't feel lonely any more.
"I think your papa most as good as my papa," Rebie whispered to Elvie after they had gone to bed that night. Elvie thought him a little better, but she was too polite to say so.
REBIE'S NEW HOME.