"You can take him the last 'St. Nicholas' if you do. I'd rather have
you go there than to Dora's or Elsie's, for then I shall not wish so
much that I could go with you," answered Bess, who was to spend the
afternoon at the dentist's.
Louise found the magazine and then walked as far an the Armstrongs'
gate with her sister and Joanna.
"Good-by," she said; "I hope Dr. Atmore won't hurt you."
Several hours later Bess entered the room where Mrs. Howard was taking
off her wraps, and asked, "Do you know where Louise is, Aunt Zelie?"
"Why, no, I have only just come in; can't you find her?"
"No, Auntie, and I have looked everywhere."
"Surely she must be in the house; it is nearly dark. Did you have your
tooth attended to?"
Bess forgot everything else in the interest of relating her
afternoon's experience, but when the story was finished she began
again to wonder what had become of Louise.
"I think Carl has just come in--I hear his whistle; perhaps she is
with him," said Aunt Zelie. But upon inquiry he had not seen her since
lunch.
"And you have looked everywhere? In the star chamber, and the library,
and--"
"Yes, and I have asked Sukey and James, and they have not seen her,"
Bess replied.
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