Scamp put up his nose and barked at the intruder, and Hetty wakened.
"Laws, Miss Hetty, you are a strange little girl," said the maid, who was the very girl who had alarmed the house during the night.

"How ever did you get a dog into your room ?" "It's only Scamp, my own Scamp, and he wouldn't hurt anybody," said Hetty; "please don't beat him away, Lucy.

He came in the middle of the night trying to find me, and I took him in.

Perhaps Mrs.Enderby will let me keep him now." "That I am sure she will not," said Lucy.

"You naughty little girl.