"I sent it back to Susan herself with a letter. I did that to-day," said Annie. "It seemed the very last thing left, the final drop in my cap of humiliation." "I am so glad," said Priscilla. "Mr Manchuri will help Susan. She is going to be educated, and will give up dressmaking." "Who is Mr Manchuri? I seem to know his name and yet to have forgotten him," said Annie. "Oh Annie, dear Annie! he belongs to _my_ story. He took me home that time from Interlaken; and--and I resemble a girl of his who died; and since then, ever since then, I have been living with him and looking after him, and he has finally arranged that I am always to stay with him as his adopted daughter. I am not going to school any more, but I am being taught--oh! in many and wonderful ways--by my dear, dear friend Mr Manchuri himself, by the beautiful picture of the girl who went to God and whom I am supposed to resemble; and I have books as many as I want, and--oh, I, who have sinned too, am happy, very happy!" "And what about Mabel?" said Annie. "Lady Lushington knows all about Mabel. Everybody knows about everything, Annie. Mabel is to stay at a school in Paris for a year. It is a good thing for her, too, that things have been found out Annie, I don't think you need fear that text any more." "You comfort me," said Annie. "Oh! sometimes, Priscilla, when you pray to God, ask Him to give me a clean heart, and to renew a right spirit within me." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The End. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Three Girls from School, by L.T. Meade