Yet, badly as she wanted anything that she might be able to earn, she knew that she could not go on teaching.

It had come to be acknowledged by both the Miss Prettymans that any teaching on her part for the present was impossible.

She would go home and perish with the rest of them.

There was no room left for hope to her, or to any of her family.

They had accused her father of being a common thief,--her father whom she knew to be so nobly honest, her father whom she believed to be among the most devoted of God's servants.