A Little Maid of Picardy by Amy Ella Blanchard

The shadows had grown very long and the sunset light in the western sky had faded to a twilight hue when Lucie was suddenly awakened by a sharp bark from Pom Pom. She sat up expecting to see a more familiar face than that of Mons. Carriere who bent over her. Pom Pom, as protector, was protesting against the too near approach of any one save a member of the family. As soon as Lucie came to a realizing sense of where she was, she sprang up asking eagerly: "My grandfather? Have you found him?"

"Alas, no, my child," was the disappointing reply. "It seems that he has not reached this town as yet."