We shall see," said the judge, rubbing his hands.

"I have a plan I think she'll listen to." In the meantime, on reaching home Grace had been cried over by her mother and put to bed as though she were a baby.

The story had been told by her chums throughout the school the next day, and Grace found herself the "observed of all observers." "Any of you would have done the same," she said when surrounded by a bevy of admiring schoolmates.
"That's what you always say," exclaimed Nora.

"But let me tell you I should have been in hysterics if I had been left alone in the dark twelve miles from nowhere." Judge Putnam did not at once make his plan known to Grace.

He called, thanking her and complimenting her on her bravery and presence of mind.
"I shall have something to ask you when school closes, my dear child," he said as he rose to go.