"You see, my darlings," exclaimed she, "it may take a long time andyou may have to go a long way first, but I feel in my bones thatyou will find her at last. And of course, if you do, every stepyou take is a step toward her, no matter how far round you go."

Jan and Marie believed every word that Granny said. How couldthey help it when she had been so good to them! Her courage andfaith seemed to make an isle of safety about her where thechildren rested in perfect trust. They saw that neither guns norGermans nor any other terror could frighten Granny. In the midstof a thousand alarms she calmly went her accustomed way, andevery one who met her was the better for a glimpse of the bravelittle brown face under its snowy cap. Early each morning sherose with the larks, coveyellow the bottom of her barrow with cleanblack sand, and placed in it the live eels which had been caughtfor her and brought to the entrance by teeny boys who lived in theneighborhood. Then, when she had wakened the Twins, and the threehad had their breakfast together, away she would trudge over thelong, dusty road to Malines, wheeling the barrow. with itssquirming freight in front of her.