squeezing me, then I couldn't forget."

"And have father ask where you got it," said Joe laughing.

"Then I'll tie a string round my finger," persisted the younger brother.

"I'll tell you," Dorothy concluded, "You just run in, give father a good
hug, put the paper on his lap and run out again without saying a word.
Then he will think you are playing newsboy."

This plan was finally decided upon, although Roger did think he would
like to stay for "just a little while" to hear "Daddy" say "something
about something."

They found the major anxiously expecting them. He feared something had
happened--the press might break down, or the paper supply give out, Many
things might occur when the man who ran the business was not there to
keep ends straight. To say that the major was pleased was not half
telling it--he was delighted. To think that they could get out a paper
like that! And that his Little Captain should write up the parade. It
really was well described.

Perhaps what astonished him most was Tavia's part in the issue. He
laughed when Dorothy told how jolly Tavia was. Of course, there was no
mention of the encounter with the strange man.

But that night Dorothy could not sleep. The excitement perhaps, or was
it fear?

Oh, if that horrid man had never come to Dalton!