"The camphor is downstairs," said Fanny, "but I will go for it if you wish me to. Does your tooth ache very much?" "Yes, rather," said Julia, and her kind-hearted sister arose and found her way in the dark downstairs to her mother’s room. "What in thunder’s come now?" called out Mr. Middleton. "’Pears like somebody’s been tousing round the house all night." "It’s only I, father," said Fanny. "Julia has the toothache, and I am after the camphor bottle." "Oh, it’s you, Sunshine, is it? The camphire’s on the mantletry. Be keerful and not break it, honey." While Fanny was after the camphor, Julia arose, and seizing her books, threw them hastily into her bureau drawer. She then sprang back into bed and when Fanny came in she was making a very appropriate moaning on account of her aching tooth! "How cold you are, sister," said Fanny; "let me warm my shawl and put it around you." "You can’t warm it, for their is neither fire nor wood," said Julia; "and besides, my tooth is much better now." So Fanny lay down by her sister, and the two, purity and guilt, were soon fast asleep, side by side, and the angel of innocence spread his broad wing protectingly over the yellow locks of the one, while a serpent lay coiled in the dark tresses of the other. CHAPTER III RESULTING IN A BETROTHAL AND A TEMPEST At the breakfast table next morning Julia’s pale face was noticed and commented upon. "She had a violent toothache last night, which kept her awake," said Fanny. "Now I think of it," said Mr. Middleton, "I wonder, Tempest, how you can have the toothache, for you are always bragging about your handsome, healthy teeth, and say you hain’t a rotten fang in your head." Julia colored, for what her father said was true, neither did she remember of ever having had the toothache in her life; but quickly recovering herself, she said, "Neither have I a decayed tooth. It was more of a faceache, I suppose, than the genuine toothache." "Probably you have taken some cold," said Mr. Wilmot. "I think quite likely I have," retorted Julia, and so the toothache matter was dismissed for the time. Mr. Miller, however, thought he could see in it a plan of Julia’s to avoid going to school that day and when he heard Mrs. Middleton say, "Julia, as it is so cold and chilly, perhaps you had better not go out," he was rather surprised to hear her reply, "Oh, no, mother; Mr. Miller is going with us and I would not miss of being there for anything." So the party proceeded together to the schoolhouse. When school commenced Julia took her books and going up to Mr. Wilmot, said, loudly enough for Mr. Miller to hear: "Mr. Wilmot, do you know that you gave me a very hard lesson for today?" "Yes, Julia," said he, "I know it is hard and long, and as you do not seem well, I will excuse you from as much of it as you choose, or from the whole of it, if you like."