BY
M. E. Longmore
Dorothy played a highly important part at a critical period in the life of her father. She begins in disgrace and ends in triumph.
"My costume!" said Dorothy Graham, jumping up from the breakfast-table.
"You need not smash all the china!" observed Dick.
"The parcels post never comes so early," murmured Dorothy's mother. "How impulsive that child is!"
In a few minutes Dorothy came back with a crestfallen air and laid a brown, uninteresting-looking envelope by her mother's plate.
"I might have known he never comes so early, except with letters," she remarked, sitting down again.
"Of course you might," said Dick, clearing the bacon dish, "but you never know anything worth knowing."
"Don't tease her," said Mrs. Graham kindly; "it is not often she gets a new frock."