the sloop came in.

"They are good people, born in Wellfleet," said the captain to Anne, as
they walked along, "and I shall ask them to keep you over night. I shall
sleep in the sloop, and to-morrow we will find out all we can about your
father."

The Freemans, for that was the name of Captain Enos's friends, gave Anne a
warm welcome Their house seemed very large and grand to the little girl.
There was a carpet on the sitting-room floor, the first Anne had ever
seen, and pictures on the walls, and a high mantel with tall brass
candlesticks.

The room in which she slept seemed very wonderful to Anne. The bed was so
high that she had to step up from a footstool to get in it, and then down,
down she went in billows of feathers. In the morning one of the Freeman
girls came in to waken her. She was a girl of about fifteen, with pretty,
light, curling hair and blue eyes. She smiled pleasantly at Anne, and told
her that there was a basin of warm water for her to bathe her face and
hands in.

"I will brush out your hair for you, if you wish," she said kindly.

But Anne said she could brush her own hair. Rose Freeman waited till Anne
was quite ready for breakfast and went down the broad flight of stairs
with her. Anne watched her new friend admiringly.

"She looks just like her name, just like a rose," she said to herself, and
resolved that she would remember and walk just as Rose did, and try and
speak in the same pleasant way.

Before breakfast was finished Captain Enos came up from the wharves. He
smiled as he looked at Anne's bright face and smooth hair, and nodded
approvingly. Then he and Mr. Freeman began to talk about the soldiers, and
the best way to find John Nelson.

"Come, Rose," said Mr. Freeman; "the captain and I will walk up near
King's Chapel and see what we can find out, and you and the little maid
can come with us."

Rose went up-stairs and came down wearing a little brown jacket and a hat
of brown silk with a green feather on it. In her hands she brought a blue
cape and a blue hat with a broad ribbon bow.

"Mother says you are to wear these," she said to Anne, with a little
smile; "'Tis a cape and hat that I wore when I was a little girl, and I
would like to have you wear them."

"I never wore a hat before," said Anne.

"It is very becoming," said Rose, and the little party started out.

Mr. Freeman stopped here and there to ask questions, and Anne, holding
fast to Rose Freeman's hand, looked w