MISS ASHTON’S NEW PUPIL.
CHAPTER I
MISS ASHTON RECEIVES A LETTER.
Miss Ashton, principal of the Montrose Academy, established for the higher education of young ladies, sat with a newly arrived letter in her hand, looking with a troubled face over its contents.
Letters of this kind were of constant occurrence, but this had in it a different tone from any she had previously received.
“It’s tender and true,” she said to herself. “How sorry I am, I can do nothing for her!”
This was the letter:—
Dear Miss Ashton,—I have a daughter Marion, now sixteen years old. Developing at this age what we think rather an unusual amount of talent, we are desirous to send her to a good school at the East.