She thought for a few moments of the old times; it seemed to steady her brain to think of them.

Then she took up and finished Miss Monro's letter.

That excellent friend had done all which she thought Ellinor would have wished without delay.

She had written to Mr.Johnson, and charged him to do everything he could to defend Dixon and to spare no expense.

She was thinking of going to the prison in the county town, to see the old man herself, but Ellinor could perceive that all these endeavours and purposes of Miss Monro's were based on love for her own pupil, and a desire to set her mind at ease as far as she could, rather than from any idea that Dixon himself could be innocent.