the car. Do you want
your men blown to pieces? Besides, my daughter," he drew her against him,
"brings news of the militia close at hand. Go back to your homes,
men--back to bed. Let the National Guards find you all asleep, and their
work for nothing. If they see all quiet, they'll leave. Then will come our
time. While I think of it, Gerani, Father O'Brady still keeps safe in the
church those papers you know of.

"Sickerenza, you haven't forgotten, have you, about the breakers being
burnt up at Wilkes-Barre? Seeing you, put me in mind of them.

"Colowski, I know a man who's looking for Sobieski."

The three men thus addressed swore beneath their breath. Thus O'Day
forever kept the noose about their necks. They slunk from sight.

"Speak to the men, you curs," commanded O'Day in English which but a few
understood. "Tell them to go back home, Gerani."

Thus admonished, the man cried out in Slavic, ordering the men home, to
meet the following night. The other two leading spirits followed his
example. There was a movement toward dispersion. The flickering lights in
their caps moved slowly away in groups of threes and fours.

The distance grew greater until to Nora O'Day they looked like fire-flies.
The light from the open door was upon her. The vivid orange of her evening
dress gleamed in the shadows. She had stood there fearless, erect, looking
straight into the eyes of the mob, until one by one they had disappeared
in the darkness.

Then she turned and leaned heavily against her father.

"I'm tired, daddy dear, but I'm happy. I have my father, and Elizabeth
will have hers. Come, take me to her. We must tell her the good news."

THE END.

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FLOWER BABIES

VERSES BY ELIZABETH MAY
ILLUSTRATIONS BY IDA MAY ROCKWELL

One Hundred Flowers Shown in Their Natural Colors

Each one of the hundred pages in Flower Babies carries a verse about
children and flowers. The drawing on the page bears out the flower idea,
showing the blossoms in the beautiful colors Nature gives them as they
grow.

There is so much genuine love in the way these verses and pictures speak
that the book has won the warmest of welcomes from the children.

WHAT OTHERS THINK

"The idea of the book is good--to familiarize children with the common
flowers."--_New York Globe._

"Its brilliancy of color would be sufficient to attract the childish eye
were it not in its versi