The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-27

the nOuSemA10, nurrylng along the passage with a highly-c -colored face suggestive of confusion, and her hand concealed under her apron.
 s'Susan," said Miss Sage, "what have you been doing2"
 "Please, m, I hanswered the post, that's all" replied the damsel, with still heightening color.
 "It isn't your place to answer the post," said her mistress. civilian does that. What have you got under your apron?"
 "Only letter, 'm," replied Susan.
 "Let ne sec it." said Miss Sage.
 The girl hesitated, and her hand fumbled uneasily in its hiding place.
 "Come, come, show it to me-" con- tinued the mistress, her suspicious now fully aroused.
 So Susan, seeing that further resist ance was useless, handed to Miss Sage letter addressed, in big, bold, mas culine hand, to Miss Wyman.
 "What business have you with Miss Wyman's letter." asked Miss Sage.
 The girl looked sheepishly at the floor cloth and made no reply.
 Miss Sage examined the letter again. The postmark was "West Strand" The writing was certainly not that of either of Pansie's aunts, and she knew of no gentleman with whom the young lady was on terms of corresponding intimacy.
 "I require an explanation st once, Susan, if you please" she continued, Cor shall beobliged to infer that you are acting dishonestly."
 At that moment Pansie came hurry ing up. When she saw the attitudes of Miss Sage and Susan, she divined the cause and looked confused.
 "Miss Wyman," said the mistress, "Susan has been keeping 8 letter of yours."
 "Oh, yes, yes," said Pansie falter- ingly. "It's all right. I am expect ing news from-from friend of mine, and as William is so slow in deliver ing the letters, I asked Susan to be good enough to get mine at once and bring them to me-"
 Miss Sage made no remark, but handed Pansie her letter with a look which sufficiently expressed what she thought about the matter.
 "She'n go and write to the aunts," thought Par sic, as she hurried away, land then"
 Miss Sage did write to Miss Aurelia, and by return of post received an an- swer detailing all the circumstances of of Pansie's little love affair, with which we are familiar, and warning Miss Sage to keep a strict watch on the girls movements. The results were that Athena house, for the future, took its airings in the comparatively deserted direction of Nottingham, and that Miss Sage took the letters from the postman herself.
 She, however, said nothing more about the matter to Pansie, for she was sensible enough to argue that, so long ss the girl did not set bad ex- ample to younger companions by carrying on an open Irritation at school, it was no business of hers if young lady of sensible age should carry on love affair away from it.
 But, one evening, second accident made her aware that the love- making process was being carried on very much nearer her than she imagined.
 The half-dozen senior girls at Athena House occupied several little partitions, instead of sleeping in a large room with others. Every other one of these partitions had window looking out into Sussex square. One of these was tenanted by Pansie Wyman.
 Miss Sage had wakeful nights, for, being contributor to the "Poet's Corner" of 8 local newspaper, her fits of inspiration seized her when released from the worry and turmoil of the school room, and, especially when the moon shone over the sea, she would sit at her open window and mediate until long after Athena House was wrapped in sleep.
 She was thus occupied a night or two after the discovery above re- corded, when she heard voices-a male and female-engaged in earnest con- versation close by her, and the female voice was not to be mistaken for that of any one but Pansie Wyman.
 Gently craning herselfout, she espied the figure of a man standing out in clear relief against the pavement be- low, his head upturned and his words unmistakably addressed to an inmate | of Athena House.
 Miss Sage saw all this at & glance, withdrew her nightcapped head, and l silently passed along the dormitory | occupied by the senior girls. Her | surmise as to the owner of the femi- | nine voice proved correct, and she | heard an animated conversation being | carried on between Miss Wyman and l the cavalier on the pavement outside. 1
 The method of dealing with such a |