THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER.

VOL. VIII.--NO. 357.

OCTOBER 30, 1886.

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THE SHEPHERD'S FAIRY

A PASTORALE.

BY DARLEY DALE, Author of "Fair Katherine," etc.


[Illustration: "THE POOR LITTLE BARONESS, WHO WAS ASLEEP, STARTED UP."]


CHAPTER V.

THE CHATEAU AFTER THE LOSS OF THE BABY.

As the baron had conjectured, the housemaid whom he had called out of
the nursery to look for Léon's cane, on finding her master had gone
without it, did not hurry back, but stopped talking to some of the other
servants for perhaps a quarter of an hour, when she returned to the
nursery, and to her amazement found the baby was gone. She was not