"It has been rather hard for your father and me," Mrs. Fulton reminded
her; "we began to fear some dreadful thing had happened to our little
girl. Promise me, Sylvia, never to run away from school again."
Sylvia promised. She wished she could tell her mother that it was not
school she ran away from; that she was trying to escape the taunts and
unfriendliness of her schoolmates. But she remembered her promise. She
had declared proudly that she should not tell, and hard as it was she
resolved that she would keep that promise. But she wished with all her
heart that she need not go to school another day.
"Do I have to go to Miss Patten's school, Mother?" she asked in so
unhappy a voice that Mrs. Fulton realized something unpleasant had
happened.
"We will talk it over to-morrow, dear," she said; "go to sleep now," and
Sylvia crept into the white bed quite ready to sleep, but wondering how
she could talk about going to school, and still keep her promise, when
to-morrow came.
CHAPTER V
ESTRALLA AND ELINOR
In the morning Sylvia did not refer to what had happened the day before,
so her mother decided not to question her. Grace and Flora both arrived
at an early hour to accompany Sylvia to school. They were eager to hear
how she had happened to be on the schooner which had carried arms to
Fort Sumter from the Charleston Arsenal. But Sylvia did not seem to want
to talk of her adventure, and both the little southern girls were too
polite to question her.
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