, that her young charge was averse to the process; and, had she stood her ground she might have evaded or parried questions, and perhaps have conveyed to Miss T

sent it so carefully, carefully indeed, fully, and the dear boy has it, yes, has it, indeed, long before this, long!" Then to Lena, "Your brother, my dear, yes, brother. Oh, I would

e a litt

Bessie both saw it; Hannah had sent it to Percy, and by some strange means, through Mi

explanations, and disclosure to her aunt and uncle of Percy's wrong-doing. Now, however, that he was released from the other dangers that had threatened him, the child felt

et Lena's old nurse before? And what is this about Percy; for I tak

intended to return to Sylvandale at once when she had accepted the trust, but had been persuaded by her friends to remain in the city until after Easter, and how she, mindful of the task she had undertaken, and not knowing where she could find Hannah to inform her of the change in her plans, had sent the money by post; but, as she assured Mrs. Rush, with the greatest precautions. Only those who wer

lanted in her poor little hear

ckless brother had been so lost to all sense of what was fitting that he had actually applied to h

his extremity, it was the most natural thing in the world that she should think he had so far forgotten himself. She could guess at

oud, high-spirited child when, at the conclusion of Miss

ined for her monument and 'epithet.' Why should she have sent them to Percy? It i

pled this with the low spirits and nervous restlessness which had, for some time past, so evidently retarded her recovery. Lena could make her no answer in words, but her expression and manner were enough, and Mrs. Rush asked no more, intending to leave the matter to the judgment of her husba

ts from the subject of the mysterious doings of Hannah, than from any real interes

g at the commencement and seeing that it was by no means in Maggie's style, "it is another effusion of Fran

AT BROKE GO

my Country and I do something bad, I'll just go and tell my papa about it without waiting for him to go poking round and having to ask me if I did it. I think it is awfully mean to do a fault and wait till somebody comes and asks you about it; it is skim

to the history books about it and make himself chestnuts. He was very polite to girls, too, and always got up and gave them a chair and gave t

mind your own business,' so the boy ran to the President and told him about it, and the President came down out of his Capitol and ran with the truth-telling boy and came to the man and said, 'Hi, there, you! Pull down that flag this minute on Good Friday! And the man was awfully frightened 'cause he knew the President has such lots of soldiers and policemen, and he was afraid he'd set them on him; so he pulled down th

uth-telling boy-I know just by the look of him he don't like people

frock and her crown, so as to make the man think she was very grand, so he'd be respectf

so mad. It sometimes makes you feel a little better to scream if you're mad, only your fathers and mothers don't like it, but this man was so old and grown up his father and mother had had to die long ago; but they saw him out of heaven and were mad at him. Well, all of a sudden he said, 'I guess it was that boy who never tells li

you to ask me any kestions, 'cause always I speak the truth wit

nd he couldn't reach him, and the President's wife screamed right out and ran for her husband's soldiers. She would ha

dictionary never thought that any one would be so bad as to break Good Friday, so there was nothing about it. So he made a new law himself very quick and told the soldiers what to do, and they ca

and this fairy came to help him, and she opened a hole in the ground and let the man fall right through to Africa, where the cannibals got him and eat him up; but he was so bad he disagreed with them, so even af

e done a bad thing. Anybody is an awful old meaner to hide it when he's done it, and you ought to

e a fault, could but see how much nobler and more manly it was to make confession, and, so far as possible, reparation. True, the money had been repaid to Seabrooke; but through what a source had it come to him; and there were so many other things to confess, things which had led to this very tro

adford children, strictly truthful and upright, he scorned concealment or evasion, and accepted the consequences of his naughtiness without attempt at either. But well could Lena remember how in the nursery days from which she and Percy had but so recently escaped, he would hide, by every possible device, his own misdoings, even to the very verge of s

very much like them. She was given to reasoning and pondering over things in the recesses of her own mind,

hich existed between them and their parents, such ideas would never have come, even while they wo

faithful old nurse had sacrificed her long-cherished gold, with its particular purpose, to the rescue of Pe

to the subject. She suspected something wrong, and was only waiting for an opportunity to submit it to the colonel. Lena did not imagine, of course, that her aunt blamed her in any way in

's cherished money! De

ame, the s

her benefit, had those suspicions more than ever confirmed since she observed the effect Miss Trevor's revelation had had upon her; she felt assured now that Percy had fallen into some

fficulty, at least. That second hundred dollars could be taken to return to Hannah that which she had sacrificed. Percy had written that he would bring it to her when she came home for the Easter holidays; she would

once, and how strange that Percy had not thought of doing it when

econd paper and glanced

d. "Spelling does not see

es a great deal of trouble with her, too; but Lily just laughs at her own spelling and does not seem to thi

pite of her sometimes careless way of speaking of right and wrong. Shall I read this, Lena; do you care

cheerfully than she had spoken before. "Lily's compositions

s own choice to say whether she will wr

est of us do; but she has never before been willing to have one rea

the piece," said Mrs. Rush, beginnin

lots of bad men, but I think he was the worst I ever knew. He made believe he was very pious, but he was not at all, he was a hipokrit and deceiver; and he made believe he had the king killed for writeousness' sake, and I know he only did it so as to take the head place himself. I think I can't bear Cromwell more than any one I ever knew. I just hate him, and it is no use for any one to say he was doing wha

uld have been had she lived in those days," s

ways stands up for kings

omposition than this. It is really not as good as some which I have see

r other lessons, history, geography, French, and everything but composition and spelling; but she only laughs about her bad report for those two, and d

arn the prize did not s

u

n't going to try. I think Maggie persuaded her to write a paper to be read in the

she took up again Lily's paper, which she had laid upon the table, "she is a dear child,

weight had been lifted from her, and looked, spoke, and acted like a different child from the one of a few moments since; "if you please, Aunt Marian. Lily goes on for some time i

re the reading of Lily's composition, the colonel