Chapter 17 CHIEFLY CONCERNING FANNY.

Of all Ph?be's friends and well-wishers there was only one who did not openly share in the joy occasioned by her release. Congratulations poured in from all sides, even from strangers at a distance, whose letters of sympathy were delivered by smiling postmen at Aunt Leth's house at least half a dozen times a day. Ph?be's escape from her dread peril