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“Did the little kids take it hard?”,Here Mrs. Wopp related for the hundredth time the account of the ketchup disaster.,Betty Wopp was gambolling along the road with other little school-girls and heard the jeers addressed to the wretched boy. The penetrating sense of Moses’ need of her brought her to a halt. Indignation made her tight little braids of hair assume an aspect as terrific as Medusa’s snaky coils. She ran lightly up to Moses and walked beside him.,“Never mind grammar, or spelling, whichever it is; what did Flash do?”,Howard Eliot guided his charges through the mazes of the city to a restaurant. Moses with the perennial appetite of fourteen ate silently and steadily, not omitting one item on the menu. He gorged.,“Only for a day, dear. I’ll be back to-night.”,CHAPTER XIV IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE,“Good-by Dad and Mar and Mosey,” called Betty as she sped down the path toward the school-house.,Although she was asleep, Betty was fully conscious in that Dream-World of love and joy where values are real. Nell and Howard saw a tender smile light up her sweet face as Mrs. Wopp’s singing, subdued by distance, floated into the room,,“By heck!” ejaculated Mr. Wopp who sat in the front seat beside his wife and Betty. Then he glanced hastily around to see if anyone had noticed his irreverent outburst. But no one had. They were all too intent on other matters.,‘The lighter pine trees overhead,’,“Then I’ll be a—a preacher if I ought to. But gee! it’s rocky!”.