his history has nothing further to do with her. Whether she succeeded
in the future or whether she failed, whether she turned from the evil
of her ways or not, must all be matters of conjecture.

The main fact which concerns us is the following: Kitty won the
Scholarship, after all, for the very next day Sir John visited Cherry
Court School and told the bare outline of poor Florence's sin and
confession. To Kitty was given the purse of gold, and the ruby locket,
the crown of bay-leaves and the parchment scroll. They were given to a
very sad Kitty, for the thought of Florence's sin completely
overpowered both her and Mary Bateman, and indeed every girl in the
school.

Sir John returned to his own house a sadder and a wiser man.

"After all, did I do right to offer this great temptation?" he said to
himself, and this thought so affected him, and occurred to him so
often, that a week later he went down to Dawlish and had an interview
with Mrs. Aylmer and Florence, and the result was that Florence was
sent to a good school and had a chance of educating herself. She was
not too proud to take this help from Sir John, for it relieved her from
all claims on her Aunt Susan in the future.

As to Mrs. Aylmer the great, never from the day when Sir John, in a few
words, told her what her niece had done, has that worthy woman
mentioned the name, Florence Aylmer. She still gives Mrs. Aylmer her
fifty pounds a year, but, as she herself declared it, "I have washed my
hands of that wicked girl once and forever."

THE END.

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