In the face of the circumstances it looks as though you were the real offender." Grace regarded Miss Duncan with mute reproach.

She could not at once trust herself to speak.
"Have you anything to say to me, Miss Harlowe ?" was the stern question.
"Only, that what I have previously said to you is the truth," answered Grace, fighting down her desire to cry.

Then, seized with a sudden idea, she said in a tone of subdued excitement, "Will you allow me to look at that theme again, Miss Duncan ?" Miss Duncan picked up the theme from the desk where Grace had laid it and handed it to her.

A strip of paper had been pasted over the name in the upper left hand corner.

Grace scanned each closely written page attentively.