CHAPTER X.
THE END OF THE WORLD.
Dotty shuddered.

It seemed so unearthly and horrible to be awake at night; to see a lamp burning, and Katie looking so very white.

It was the strawberries which had made her ill, as Miss Polly confessed.

When that good but ignorant woman had gone down stairs, Dotty had much ado to keep from screaming outright.
"I thought somebody would die," said she to herself; "but I didn't s'pose it would be Katie.

O, Katie, Katie Clifford! you're the cunningist child.