"They
would not let you in, because you are too young."
"I want to find my father, who has been on the sea," the child
explained. "Do you think he might be there?"
"He is sure to be there," said the deep-eyed man; and he and the other
men laughed. "If you sit on a bench where the grass and flowers are,
outside the Casino door, and watch, perhaps you will see him come down
the steps. But you are small to be out all alone looking for him."
"It's very important for me to find my father before it is dark," said
Rosemary. "So I thank you for telling me, and now goodbye."
Daintily polite as usual, she bowed to them all, and started up the
hill.
As she walked briskly on, she studied with large, starry eyes the face
of every man she met; but there was not a suitable father among them.
She was still fatherless when she reached the Place of the Casino, where
she had often come before, to walk in the gardens or on the terrace at
unfashionable hours with her mother, on Sundays, or other days
when--unfortunately--there was no work to do.
She had sat down on a bench between a French "nou-nou," with a wonderful
head dress, and a hawk-visaged old lady with a golden wig, and had fixed
her eyes upon the Casino door, when the throb, throb of a motor caught
her attention.
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