excellent
taste in its selection."

"Oh, Polly always knows just what's right!" praised Leonora.

Miss Price did not reply, only smiled across to Polly in the
friendliest way.

"Is n't High Price lovely this afternoon!" whispered the lame
girl, as the tall nurse turned to admire a doll which was help up
for her inspection.

Polly nodded happily. Everything was "lovely" now. What a
glad, beautiful world it was!

"My dear!" A pair of soft arms clasped her from behind, and
Polly found herself looking up into Miss Lucy's radiant face. "I
believe you are a little witch!" she laughed "You have given me
just such a bag as I have coveted for a good many years, but which
I never expected to won."

"I'm so glad!" responded Poly. "But Mrs. Jocelyn chose it--
the kind, I mean."

She might have added that she should never have dared select on at
that price; but she only smiled joyously.

"Then I will thank you and Mrs. Jocelyn both," smiled Miss Lucy,
moving away with the other nurse.

"Was n't it nice of her to buy all these things for you to give
us!" said Leonora happily.

Polly's response was sober. She could not quite forget how sorry
the dear little lady would be when she heard what had been
decided. But her seriousness soon gave place to laughter. The
ward was in too merry a mood to allow aught but mirth within its
walls.

Chapter XVII

The Wedding

The next morning David called for Polly on his way to school, and
the two went off together, the children waving good-byes from the
windows. They returned, at noon, in love with their teachers, in
love with the scholars, in love with their new books and all
pertaining to the school. Such funny, interesting things had
happened, and Polly told about them all dinner time.

Leonora watched her two friends go back in the afternoon, feeling
a little sad. If only she could go, too! But she was growing
well and strong; Dr. Dudley had assured her that she would soon be
able to run about like other girls. The sadness, after all, ended
in a long breath of joy.

The weeks before the secret came out where very happy weeks for
Polly. Only a ew days after her visit to Mrs. Jocelyn came a
package, a large, flat, nearly square package. It arrived while
she was at school, and she found the children eyeing it curiously
as it lay on Miss Lucy's desk.

"It's for you," announced Stella, "and she said there must n't
anybody touch it. She would n't open it he