promptly came. Miss Muriel's bell
was not one to be neglected!

"No, no, no! I shan't--I won't--the deb--"

"Not that word, sweetheart, never again!" warned the Lady Principal,
laying her finger on Grace's lips. "Go nicely now with Dora, and make
no trouble."

"No, no, no!" still screamed Grace: her flushed face and feverish
appearance sending fresh alarm to her aunt's heart.

"Why, look here, Millikins! I'm Dorothy. The 'sleepy-head' you came to
wake up this morning. Won't you go with _me_, dear? If Auntie Prin
says 'yes,' I'll take you back to bed, and if you'll show me where."

Millikins looked long and steadily at Dolly's appealing arms, then
slowly crept into them.

"Pretty! Millikins'll go with pretty Dorothy!"

So they went away, indeed a "pretty" sight to the anxious aunt.
Dorothy's white gown and scarlet ribbons transformed her from the
rain-and-mud-bespattered girl of a few hours before, while her loving
interest in the frightened child banished all fear and homesickness
from her own mobile face.

Little Grace's room was a small one opening off from Miss Muriel's,
and as soon as the lecture was over and she was free, she took Dr.
Winston with her to see the child. Her dark little face was still very
flushed, but she was asleep, Dorothy also. The girl had drawn a chair
close to the child's cot and sat there with an arm protectingly thrown
over her charge: and now a fresh anxiety rose in the Lady Principal's
heart.

"Oh! Doctor, what if it should be something contagious? I don't see
why I didn't think of that before. Besides, I sacrificed Miss
Calvert's opportunity to hear the lecture for Grace's sake. How could
I have been so thoughtless!"

"Well, Madam, I suppose because you are human as well as a
schoolma'am, and love for your niece stronger than training. But don't
distress yourself. I doubt if this is anything more than a fit of
indigestion. That would account, also, for the imaginary visit of a
goblin, which terrified the little one. However, it might be well to
isolate Miss Dorothy for a day or so, in case anything serious
develops."

By that time Dorothy was awake and sat up listening to this
conversation; and when the doctor explained to her that this isolation
meant that she must live quite apart from the schoolmates she so
desired to know, she was bitterly disappointed.

"I haven't been here more than twenty-four hours, yet it seems as if
more unpleasant things have happened than cou