How could her room-mate have become possessed of such a preposterous idea?
And in what a web of mystery the affair seemed involved! One certainty came as an immense relief.

Rona was not guilty.

More than this, she was behaving with an extraordinary amount of courage and loyalty.
"She believes I took it, and yet she is bearing all the blame, and shielding me for the sake of the school," groaned Ulyth.

"Oh, what must she be thinking of me! We're all at cross-purposes.

Did she really fancy that when I said: 'Remember the Camp-fire', I was begging her to screen me?
Somebody took the pendant and put it in her pocket; that's the ugly part of the business.