Year: 1870

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to so serious a step-but the rigid contine-
ment of Katie to the girls apartments, so
that he would be isolated, and the lovers
have no chance of meeting. This was the
terrible sentence Of Miss Tiggs, and sem
tence that was carried Immediately into eff
feet, Miss Tiggs announcing to Walter as
she rebuked him for his heinous immoral
ity, that within very few days he would
have an opportunity of judging what he
ought to be by taking for his exemplar his
cousin Bob, who was to spend month
from school with her foi the first time in
five years. This fact did not interest Wal
ter much, for really nothing did interest
him save Katie, and the only point on
which he could dwell in connection with
the newcomer was curiosity. Cousin Bob,
according to Leonora's idea, was perfec-
ton. He was only thirteen, but an Admi-
raj Chrichton. What he couldn't do wasn't
worth doing as to good looks, he had
more of them than he knew what to do
with, and was expected with them every
hour at Miss Tiggs' establishment.


To change the scene to the girls apart
ments. Poor Katie had now been one
whole week that she had not seen Walter
and she was not only broken-hearted, but
desperate. The gossip among the girls
about the coming cousin Bob did not move
her one bit. She knew nothing, could
thing nothing, but Walter, and as long as
Miss Tiggs was in the house it would be
impossible for her to see him; and Miss
All the girls pitied Katie, but what could
all the girls do against fate q? But there
was one very little girl, and as reckless
as she was little, and as full of fun as she
was reckless. This very little girl was al
ways up to all the mischief that could be
Matched, and had often been heard to be-
moan the ancient days when the girls had
such fun-when they used to dress up in
Walters clothes and play various pranks,
generally ending in some sort of punish
ment from Miss Tiggs, which was only
looked upon as the salt that favored the
affair. This very little girl it was, putting
that and that together, who one day said to
Katie, who was only waiting for a proper
opportunity to burst into hearty cry


"Why don't you dress up and pass your
self off with Miss Tiggs for Cousin Bob,
and then you can see Walter as much as
you please?


Now it was dreadful thing for this very
little girl to do such wicked thing as this,
so very little as she was too; but what
shall we say of Katie, who took her as
quick as lightning in her arms, and said


"Oh, you dear little creature how smart
you are I'll do it right away"


Well, well, the wickedness of young Ia
dies at boarding schools never can be esti-
mated, and therefore there need be NO
wonderment when we assert that Katie and
this very little girl were soon laying their
good-looking heads together and contriving
how this notable plot could be accomplished,
and at last concluded that nothing could be
done without calling in the aid of Molly.


Now Molly was the maid-of-all-work for
the young ladies-general dressing-maid,
chamber-maid, errand-maid, and made to
do all kind of things either by love OF
bribery the first being the motive with
Kate Dillon, for Molly had been heard sev.
eral times unblushingly to declare that
she would run her head off to serve that
young lady, though how far running ones
head off can serve any person is a problem
not easily solved


And now these three Kate, Molly ant
this very little girl, have their heads to
gether and soon the problem was solv
ed,-frst that suit of clothes must bt
got, which Molly settled by engaging t.
borrow the -go-to-meetings of 6
nephew, which she had presented him her
self; and why shouldn't she borrow them
which-taking Kate in with her eye
would just fit? After this master-stroke
the trouble was almost over, for there wa