GOING into the Shaws\' one evening, Polly found Maud sitting on the stairs, with a troubled face.
"Oh, Polly, I \'m so glad you \'ve come!" cried the little girl, running to hug her.
"What\'s the matter, deary?"
"I don\'t know; something dreadful must have happened, for mamma and Fan are crying together upstairs, papa is shut up in the library, and Tom is raging round like a bear, in the dining-room."