He did not say a word for
an instant, for his lips were pressed so tightly together, that they
were a white line.
[Illustration: With a crash of machinery he brought the big blue car to
a stop. Page 70.
--_Rosemary._]
That beautiful, little golden-haired, smiling thing, so full of life!
But it was all right now. She was smiling still, as if she did not guess
the deadly peril she had just escaped.
"Don't you know, little one," he asked gently, "that it's very dangerous
to run in front of automobiles?"
"Oh, but I wanted so much to stop you," said Rosemary.
"Why, do you know me?" And the young man smiled such a pleasant smile,
with a gleam of white teeth, that the child was more than ever sure she
had done right.
"Yes, I know you by 'eavensenthinstinct." She got out the long word with
a gasp or two; but it was a great success. She had not mixed up a single
syllable.
The young man burst out laughing. "Where's your nurse?" he asked.
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