"Pray didn't she have my old bonnet ?" "Yes," answered Jenny, "but I bought it of you, and paid you for it with a bracelet Billy Bender gave me,--you know I did." Rose was cornered, and as she saw noway of extricating herself, she turned on her heel and walked away, muttering about the meanness of doing a charitable deed, and then boasting of it! The next day Jenny chanced to go for a moment to Mary's room.

As she entered it, Mary looked up, saying, "You are just the one I want to see.

I've been writing about you to Billy Bender.

You can read it if you choose." When Jenny had finished reading the passage referred to, she said, "Oh, Mary, I didn't suppose you overheard Rose's unkind remarks about that bonnet." "But I did," answered Mary, "and I am glad, too, for I had always supposed myself indebted to her instead of you.

Billy thought so, too, and as you see, I have undeceived him.