"This has taught you a lesson, Beth, without mamma's saying anything," Mrs. Davenport said, when the little penitent had finished. "You know yourself it was very wrong to go without permission, and I do not think you will ever do such a thing again, will you?"
"Never," answered Beth so earnestly that Mrs. Davenport had full faith in her promise.
CHAPTER VII
Beth's New Playfellow
Beth could not find Fritz high or low and she was worried about him.
She ran out to the barn to ask January if he had seen anything of her pet. She found the former inside the barn leaning up against a partition wall with his eyes shut and his mouth wide open. He was fast asleep and looked very droll.
Beth could hardly keep from laughing, but she managed to say sternly:
"January, you ought to be working instead of sleeping."
He wakened with a start. A look of conscious guilt overspread his face.