He was accused of a paltry theft, and the magistrates and lawyers and policemen among them had decided that the accusation was true! How could she look the girls in the face after that, or attempt to hold her own among the teachers! On the next morning there came the letter from Miss Lily Dale, and with that in her hand she again went to Miss Prettyman.

She must go home, she said.

She must at any rate see her mother.

Could Miss Prettyman be kind enough to send her home.

"I haven't sixpence to pay for anything," she said, bursting out into tears; "and I haven't a right to ask for it." Then the statements which Miss Prettyman made in her eagerness to cover this latter misfortune were decidedly false.