ment into the street to see if the carriages were in sight, she came
upon a girl about her own age, who was to be of the company, very gayly
apparelled in thin white tarletan and pink ribbons,

"Good-morning, Sadie," said Lulu. "What a nice day for the 'squantum,'
isn't it?"

"Yes; and it's most time to start, and you're not dressed yet, are you?"
glancing a trifle scornfully from her own gay plumage to Lulu's plainer
attire.

The latter flushed hotly but made no reply. "I don't see anything of the
carriages yet," was all she said; then darting into the cottage occupied
by their family, she rushed to her trunk, and throwing it open, hastily
took from it a white muslin, coral ribbons and sash, and with headlong
speed tore off her plain colored dress and arrayed herself in them.

She would not have had time but for an unexpected delay in the arrival
of the carriage which was to convey her parents, brother and sister and
herself to the "squantum" ground.

As it was, she came rushing out at almost the last moment, just as the
captain was handing his wife into the vehicle.

Max met her before she had reached the outer door. "Lu, Mamma Vi says
you will need a wrap before we get back; probably even going, and you're
to bring one along."

"I sha'n't need any such thing! and I'm not going to be bothered with
it!" cried Lulu, in a tone of angry impatience, hurrying on toward the
entrance as she spoke.

"Whew! what have you been doing to yourself?" exclaimed Max, suddenly
noting the change of attire, while Grace, standing in the doorway,
turned toward them with a simultaneous exclamation, "Why, Lulu--" then
broke off, lost in astonishment at her sister's audacity.

"Hush, both of you! can't you keep quiet?" snapped Lulu, turning from
one to the other; then as her father's tall form darkened the doorway,
and a glance up into his face showed her that it was very grave and
stern, she shrank back abashed, frightened by the sudden conviction that
he had overheard her impertinent reply to her mamma's message, and
perhaps noticed the change in her dress.

He regarded her for a moment in silence, while she hung her head in
shame and affright; then he spoke in tones of grave displeasure, "You
will stay at home to-day, Lulu; we have no room for disrespectful,
disobedient children--"

"Papa," she interrupted, half pleadingly, half angrily, "I haven't been
disobedient or disrespectful to you."

"It is quite the same," he said;