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PAULA LEAVES DEEPDALE.
Mrs Measures would have followed Paula Stafford to the schoolhouse that very evening if her husband had not prevented it. He had told the girl to take a couple of days to think over the matter, and he would not let his wife interfere with her till the time was up. Meanwhile he felt very depressed about it all. He had not the least suspicion that the teacher had been guilty of any impropriety, but her reticence and obstinacy puzzled and grieved him. Doubtless she had some good reason for refusing to speak, but that assurance would not satisfy his churchwardens, and he foresaw that he should lose an admirable assistant in the school, and one which he should not easily replace. Mrs Measures, on the contrary, anticipated no such evil consequences, and rallied her husband on his want of circumspection.