CHAPTER XVI.
BANISHED.
Kitty was to be sent away to school.

That was what that unlucky day had done for Kitty.

The fiat had gone forth, and there was no escape.
Aunt Pike had been very frightened indeed when she was summoned home, and learned all about Anna's Helbarrow Tors experience, and found her seriously ill with pneumonia as a result of it.

She was very angry and very indignant, and angry fright, or fright and anger combined, make the worst form of anger as a rule.
"Kitty was responsible, and there could not possibly be any excuse for her leaving the spot without her cousin," declared Mrs.Pike.
"Kitty knew that there were many ways amongst which she might get lost, and how lonely it was, and she and Dan should have gone in search of poor Anna, and not have left the place until they had found her or heard for certain where she was.

The idea of coming all the way home without her, and with never a thought or a care as to what had become of her! It was almost incredible!" "I did think.