"Yes," he said, gayly; "they say she give her rat poison.

They've sent for the sheriff from Alford." "She never did it in the world.

Why, I went to school with her," gasped Mrs.Ayres.
Sylvia had the same conviction, but she backed it with logic.

"What should she do it for ?" she demanded.

"Miss Farrel was a steady boarder, and Lucinda ain't had many steady boarders lately, and she needed the money.