CHAPTER VI.

_PRISCILLA._ EVA was right about Rebecca. When Fanny attacked her on the subject, which she did in presence of several of the girls, Rebecca drew back and qualified, and didn't "exactly mean to say that Fanny really said so in so many words, but she certainly got the idea from what she said; and then, when Claribel first came, Fanny certainly had said that Claribel walked with a crutch and had high shoulders." "And what if I did?" demanded Fanny. "I wasn't making fun of them. The girls asked me how Claribel looked,…