StNicholas [serial] . nfortu-nately the boy was a Charlie. Yet the youthfuldetective was on the right track, after all. Thedoctor directed him to the home of a Judge Ros-siter, and Stanton, he said, was the name of thejudges son. Through the tropic heat Douglaspushed his quest to the door of a Spanish-lookinghouse near Tulane University. Shades down; noanswer to his repeated ring; family clearly out oftown! Dame Fortune was evidently a tease!The lad next hurried to the judges law office,which he found being closed for the night. The judge? Called out to Nevada two daysago, said the clerk. The
StNicholas [serial] . nfortu-nately the boy was a Charlie. Yet the youthfuldetective was on the right track, after all. Thedoctor directed him to the home of a Judge Ros-siter, and Stanton, he said, was the name of thejudges son. Through the tropic heat Douglaspushed his quest to the door of a Spanish-lookinghouse near Tulane University. Shades down; noanswer to his repeated ring; family clearly out oftown! Dame Fortune was evidently a tease!The lad next hurried to the judges law office,which he found being closed for the night. The judge? Called out to Nevada two daysago, said the clerk. The rest of the family?Away for the summer; he did not know wait! There was the judges brother, theyoung man remembered. He had a plantationout near Pickettsville. Why not go there for par-ticulars? It was but a two hours trip. That evening Douglas vainly watched the Ros-siters deserted house for the possible appearanceof Eric. Next morning he was on the railroadagain, speeding toward the plantation. continued.). THE L1TTLB HARE OF OKI (A Japanese Fairy Tale) RETOLD BY B. M. BURRELL Alice lived in New York, but she still had thenurse who had taken care of her when she wasa tiny baby in far-away Japan. Nurse wore thepicturesque kimono and obi of her native land,and looked so different from other people thatfriends often wondered how Alice could feel athome with her. Love, however, is the same theworld over, and no one loved Alice better thandid her little Japanese nurse. When Papa and Mama were at dinner, andAlice and Nurse had the library all to themselvestill bedtime, the little girl would often pull twochairs up to the fire and say coaxingly: There is just time for a story! And Nursewould smile her funny Japanese smile and begin: Long, long ago, when the great Japanese godsruled from high heaven, — This was the beginning Alice liked best, for itmeant that a fairy tale would follow. And Nursewould perhaps continue: —a little hare lived on the island of Oki. Itwas a b
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