I, and nobody else." "You?
How, child ?" "I killed her with the slate, Miss Rutherford; this slate, look." She pointed to a slate without a frame which lay on the floor.

There were sums worked on the uppermost side, and the pencil-marks were half obliterated.

For a moment the schoolmistress's amazement held her motionless, but fresh and louder moans recalled her to the immediate necessities of the case.

She pushed Ida Starr aside, and, with the help of a servant-girl who had by this time appeared in the room, raised the sufferer into a chair, and began to apply what remedies suggested themselves.

The surgeon, whom several of the children had hastened to seek, only lived a few yards away, and his assistant was speedily present.