When I found it was gone I came to you at once and asked for another day's time.

That same night I rewrote it as well as I could from memory and handed it to you the following day." An ominous silence ensued.

Then Miss Duncan said stiffly: "Miss Harlowe, the young woman who wrote the theme you have in your hand dropped it into the collection box of another section during the very evening you would have me believe you were writing it.

It was brought to me early the next morning." "How do you know that it was dropped into the box the evening before ?" flung back Grace, forgetting for an instant to whom she was speaking.
"Your question is hardly respectful, Miss Harlowe," returned Miss Duncan, coldly reproving.

"I will answer it, however, by saying that I sent for the young woman and questioned her regarding the time she placed her theme in the box, without letting her know my motive in doing so.