I'll tell you what you can do, Jule," continued he: "call on Mrs. Kinney, the Roths, and one or two others, and induce them to say that if Miss Jordan won't dismiss the Garies that they will withdraw their children; and you know if they do, it will break up the school entirely.

"That's settled," soliloquized Mrs. Stevens, with an air of intense satisfaction, as she descended the steps"her four children would make a serious gap in the little school; and now, then," continued she, "for the Roths.