Grandma Elsie, do you know where Gracie is ?" "I think you will find her in the playroom." Lulu immediately resorted thither, and found Grace playing happily with her dolls.
"Oh, Lu, I'm so glad you have come!" she cried, glancing up at her sister as she entered.
"I do miss you so all day long while you are at school! But what's the matter with your hand ?" she asked with concern.
"Nothing very serious," Lulu answered carelessly.

"That villain of a music-teacher snapped his pointer on my fingers and blistered them; that's all." "Oh, Lu, what a shame! Did it hurt you very much ?" "Quite a good deal; but of course it was the insult, not the pain, that I cared for." She went on to give the details of the occurrence to this new listener, who heard them with tears of sympathy and indignation.
"I think somebody ought to whip him," she said; "and I hope he'll never have a chance to strike you again." "I don't intend he shall.

I've said I won't take another lesson from him, and I don't intend to.

But Grandpa Dinsmore says I must; so there'll be another fight." "Oh, Lu, don't!" cried Grace, in terror; "don't try to fight _him_.

Don't you remember how he 'most made Grandma Elsie die when she was a little girl, 'cause she wouldn't do what he told her to ?" Lulu nodded.