to say so.

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My pen is laid aside, and my many pages of writing have been
sent to their destination. What I undertook to do, is now done.
To take a metaphor from the stage--the curtain falls here on
the Governor and the Prison.



Second Period: 1875.

THE GIRLS AND THE JOURNALS.


CHAPTER XI.

HELENA'S DIARY.

We both said good-night, and went up to our room with a new
object in view. By our father's advice we had resolved on keeping
diaries, for the first time in our lives, and had pledged
ourselves to begin before we went to bed.

Slowly and silently and lazily, my sister sauntered to her end of
the room and seated herself at her writing-table. On the desk lay
a nicely bound book, full of blank pages. The word "Journal" was
printed on it in gold letters, and there was fitted to the covers
a bright brass lock and key. A second journal, exactly similar in