give an excuse. Then I can say how the whole trouble was more of a
mistake, than anything else, and how we were all really somewhat to
blame; perhaps one as much as another."




CHAPTER XI

A SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER


The setting right of Sarah's wrong--a task which Dorothy had so
willingly volunteered to perform,--was by no means so simple a matter as
she had attempted to make it. School girls are apt to be fond of
excitement, and this bit of trouble brought with it so many interesting
experiences--the visit of a real squire, the "insurrection" of Alice;
Dorothy falling ill in the cloak room, and that particularly novel
occurrence: the disappearance of Tavia Travers. Surely all these
features would seem to mark a red letter week on the calendar of
"interesting events" at Dalton School. But that was not to be the
end of it.

Dorothy intended to make such an explanation to the class, that the
entire affair would be cleared up without too much blame resting on
Sarah.

A conference with Tavia, held directly after her pathetic interview with
Sarah, resulted in the former declaring she would shoulder any blame
that could be made to fit her. "For a girl with a sprained ankle, and a