Part 50 (1/2)

”No, I am not glad,” replied Betty. ”If I had known she was going I might have spoken to her just once. As it is, I am sorry.”

”Oh Bettina, why?”

”Because she has lost the influence of so n.o.ble a woman as dear Mrs.

Haddo, and of so faithful a friend as Margaret Grant, and of so dear a girl as Martha West. Oh, why did I ever come here to upset things? And why did I ever tell that wicked, wicked lie?”

”You have repented now, poor darling, if any one ever did!” said both the twins.

As they spoke Mrs. Haddo entered the room. ”Betty,” she said, ”I wish to tell you something. You certainly did exceedingly wrong when you told Sir John Crawford that you knew nothing of the packet. But I know you did not steal it, dear, for I hold a letter in my hand from your aunt, in which she told Sir John that she had given the packet absolutely into your care. Sir John could never have read that letter; but I have read it, dear, and I have written to him on the subject.”

”Then I may keep the packet?” asked Betty in a very low voice.

”Yes, Betty.”

”And it will read me a lesson,” said Betty. ”Oh, thank you! thank you!”

Then she sprang to her feet and kissed Mrs. Haddo's white hands first, and then pressed a light kiss on that good lady's beautiful lips. ”G.o.d will help me to do better in the future,” she added.

And she was helped.

THE END

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