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 March rehearsals. At first after my talk with Sister Chrysostom I kept thinking of it all the time; but as the weeks went on I was so busy it dropped from my mind. I had almost entirely forgotten it, though I was seeing Sister Chrysostom every day, when I heard my brother Jack's chum say to him at the dinner-table one evening:

"Let's go to see the 'Bannerton Troubadours' to-night."

It gave me a start, I can tell you! But I didn't dare to show that I was interested, for Jack has the worst way of getting things from me that I don't want to tell. But as soon as I got away from the table I simply flew for the evening paper and found the announcement. "The Troubadours" were in town: this was Monday, and they were to open at the Academy that evening. So you see I had almost slipped up on my promise to Sister Chrysostom. Those dreadful rehearsals had driven everything else out of my head.

However, it was all right, after all, I thought, for she merely wanted to know when they were in town, and I could tell her the next morning. They were to leave Thursday, but anyhow she'd have two days to think about her old friend as being in the same city with her.

The next morning I saw her hurrying along