For one awful moment Nathalie stood silent, staring at her brother in dumb despair. Then she turned, and with a blur in her eyes and a tightening of her throat, blindly groped for the stairway. But no! Dick`s hand shot out, he caught the hurrying figure in his grasp, and the next moment Nathalie was sobbing on his breast. "That`s all right, little sis," exclaimed the boy with a break in his voice, as he pressed the brown head closer. Then he cried, in an attempt at jocularity, "Just get it all out of your s