I wish I could bear it for you." Anna was almost beyond speaking, but she laid her head back against Kitty's arm with a sigh of relief.

"O Kitty, I am so glad to have done something for you--that's all I think of.

I don't mind the pain.
You have done so much for me, and I--I wanted to make it up to you somehow." "Don't you ever think of that again," said Kitty solemnly.

"You have saved Dan's life, perhaps all our lives, and that wipes out everything.
But oh! poor Dan, won't he be in a scrape to-morrow when this is all found out!" "But it won't be found out," said Anna.

"We can easily get rid of the paper, and the mark on the curtain won't show unless one looks for it; and, you see, it won't be taken down till the winter is over, and then--" "But your hands," cried Kitty.