THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER
Vol. XX.—No. 1015.]
[Price One Penny.
JUNE 10, 1899.
[Transcriber’s Note: This Table of Contents was not present in the original.]
SHEILA’S COUSIN EFFIE.
VARIETIES.
BOOKS BEFORE TRAVEL.
A QUIVER OF QUOTATIONS.
“OUR HERO.”
ON SOME POINTS OF DEPORTMENT IN SINGING.
HANGING CASE FOR UMBRELLAS AND STICKS.
“AFTERNOON TEA;” A CHAT OVER THE TEACUPS.
THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH.
USEFUL HINTS.
STRAY LEAVES FROM ASSAM.
ON A VERY OLD PIANO.
SOME HOLIDAY MUSIC.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
SHEILA’SCOUSIN EFFIE.
A STORY FOR GIRLS.
By EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN, Author of “Greyfriars,” “Half-a-dozenSisters,” etc.
“THE MAN GRINNED AND SHOOK HIS HEAD.”
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CHAPTER X.
AFTER-EFFECTS AND CYRIL.
The whole place was in atumult. The streets werethronged. Passionate inquiriesand greetings werepassing from mouth to mouth.The chief thing was to getthe girls under cover asquickly as possible, out of thehubbub all round the municipalbuildings. The Bensonsthrew open their house; theCossarts did the same. Sheilasoon found herself, togetherwith May Lawrence and MissAdene, in her aunt’s drawing-room,where Raby andRay had preceded them, andthey were received with thewarmest effusion by the companygathered there, for in theconfusion and alarm nobodywas confidently reckoned to besafe till he or she had beenactually seen.
North came in a few minuteslater.
“Effie has been takenstraight home in our uncle’scarriage. We could not getat you, Sheila, so Oscar is totake you back later on, whenthe excitement is abated. Arethe girls there? That’s allright. Yes, mater, I am safeenough; but don’t keep me.There are frantic mothershunting up their children still.I believe no lives have beenlost; but I must go and dowhat I can to reassure them.We must find the waifs andstrays, and get them to theirright