If she did, then being found out by you will be lesson enough for her." "I have not as yet exonerated you from this charge, Miss Harlowe," declared Miss Duncan stiffly, her brief graciousness vanishing like magic.

"If the other girl is to blame, then she must suffer for her fault.

Until I have seen Miss Ashe I shall say nothing.

After that I can not promise." Grace bowed and left the class room, her feeling toward the unknown plagiarist entirely one of pity.

She had vindicated herself at the expense of exposing some one else without intent to do more than assert her own innocence, and she now wondered sadly if there were not some way in which she might persuade Miss Duncan to change her mind.
On her way from Miss Duncan's class room that morning Grace found herself walking directly behind Emma Dean.