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Compliments of the Season 195
lionaire's palace on the Hudson, and these ransacked the
house and grounds, but without finding the lost treasure.
The child was a girl of five, and one of those perverse
little beasts that often wound the sensibilities of wealthy
parents by fixing their affections upon some vulgar, inex-
pensive toy instead of upon diamond-studded automobiles
and pony phaetons.
The Child grieved sorely and truly, a thing inexplicable
to the Millionaire, to whom the rag-doll market was about
as interestiig as Bay State Gas; and to the Lady, the
Child's mother, who was all for form - that is, nearly all,
as you shall see.
The Child cried inconsolably, and grew hollow-eyed,
knock-kneed, spindling, and corykilverty in many other
respects. The Millionaire smiled and tapped his coffers
confidently. The pick of the output of the FIrench and
German toymakers was rushed by special delivery to tlhe
mansion; but Rachel refused to be comforted. She was
weeping for her rag child, and was for a high protective
tariff against all foreign foolishness. Then doctors with
the finest bedside manners and stop-watches were called
in. One by one they chattered futilely about pepto-
manganate of iron and sea voyages and hypophosphites
until their stop-watches showed that Bill Rendere I was
under the wire for show or place. Then, as men, they
advised that the rag-doll be found as soon as possible and
restored to its mourning parent. The Child sniffed atI a~R17~
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