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ished with the 'third degree?'" "Refrain from slang, if you please. I never countenance such expressions." Viola only smiled. Evidently Miss Crane had reached "the end of her rope." "And you will make no explanation of why you told such a story to the girls of Glenwood?" and the calm voice of the teacher rang out clearly now. "No other reason to give for depriving one of the sweetest and best of these girls of her happy place among her companions? And that same girl refuses to tell her own story, because of a promise! She must bear all the shame, all the suspicion, all the wrong silently, when everybody knows she is shielding someone. Viola Green, to whom did Dorothy Dale make that promise?" "How should I know?" replied the other with curled lip. "Who, then, is Dorothy Dale shielding?" "Shielding? Why, probably her dear friend, Tavia Travers. I don't know, of course. I am merely trying to help you out!" That shot blazed home--it staggered Miss Crane. She had never thought of Octavia! And she was so close a friend of Dorothy's--besides being over reckless! It might be that Dorothy was shielding Tavia and that she would not and could not break a promise made to the absent member of Glenwood school. Miss Crane was silent. She sat there gazing at Viola. Her pink and white cheeks assumed a red tinge. Viola was victorious again. She had only made a suggestion and that suggestion had done all the rest. "I will talk to Mrs. Pangborn," said Miss Crane finally, and she arose and quietly left the room. CHAPTER XXIII THE REAL STORY That night before twelve o'clock a telegram was delivered at Glenwood school. It was for Viola Green and called her to the bedside of her mother. It simply read: "Come at once. Mother very ill." So the girl who had been tempting fate, who had refused to right a wrong, who had turned a deaf ear to the pleadings of friends and the commands of superiors, was now summoned to the bedside of the one person in all the world she really loved--her mother! Viola grasped the message from the hands of Mrs. Pangborn herself, who thought to deliver it with as little alarm as possible. But it was not possible to deceive Viola. Instantly she burst into tears and moans with such violence that the principal was obliged to plead with the girl to regard the feelings of those whose rooms adjoined hers. But this did not affect Viola. She declared her darling littl
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