Chapter 22 PET FINISHES HER EDUCATION.

"And her brow cleaned, but not her dauntless eye;

The wind was down, but still the sea ran high."

-Don Juan.

Accustomed to early rising from her infancy, the first beam of morning sunshine found Pet out of bed, and dressed.

The other girls, with Miss Sharpe, were up, too, hastily throwing on their clothes, and looking pale, haggard and