I may need them in my interview with Miss Leece.
I may as well tell you I am anticipating a pretty stiff battle with her.
I don't believe I should have won with only the handkerchiefs." "Oh, I hope we can save Anne, Miss Thompson," cried Grace.
"I earnestly hope so, too," replied the principal.

"It would be too heart breaking to have the child go down under this false accusation; and aside from that, such scandals are bad for the school and I would rather deal with them privately than have them made public.

But run along now, dear.

You have done nobly and deserve a prize yourself." A knock was heard, and as Grace departed through one door Miss Leece opened the other.
"If Miss Thompson only wins this battle!" the young girl exclaimed to herself.

"I want to believe she will, but I know that terrible Miss Leece will make a tremendous fight." She joined her friends, who were waiting for her outside.
"Girls," she cried, "pray for Anne to-night!" Nora, good little Catholic that she was, went straight to her church and burned two candles before the altar of the Holy Virgin, while she offered up a humble petition for Anne's deliverance; while Grace and Jessica, in their own bedrooms, that night prayed reverently and earnestly that Anne might be saved from her enemies.