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`` Half of me 's happy and half of me is n't , '' she confessed in a low voice . `` It makes me mad not to be friends with everybody and I ca n't honestly feel that Mr. Wells and I are friends . '' Mr. Bracken found one morning , when he had reached his office , that he had forgotten some important papers . He went home at noon to get them . He let himself into the apartment and walked directly into the living-room . He stopped with an exclamation of surprise for on the broad davenport was a little girl fast asleep . One of her arms was thrown protectingly about a brass cage in which a bird swung lazily .