"I hope grandpa will have him arrested and sent to
prison."
"But oh, Lu," cried Nettie Vance, the one who had brought the signor's
message, "do tell me, didn't you strike him back? He looked as if he had
had a pretty heavy blow on the side of his face."
"So he had; as hard a one as I could give with the music-book in both
hands," replied Lulu, smiling grimly at the recollection.
Her statement was received with peals of laughter, clapping of hands and
cries of,
"Good for you, Miss Raymond!"
"Oh, but I'm glad he got his deserts for once!"
"I think he'll be apt to keep his hands--or rather his pointer--off you
in the future."
"Off other people too," added a timid little girl who had felt its sting
more than once. "I was rejoiced to hear the professor say he didn't allow
such punishment for girls. I'll let the signor know, and that I'll inform
on him if ever he touches me with his pointer again."
"So should I," said Nettie; "I wouldn't put up with it. But he has never
hurt you as he has Lulu. See! every one of her fingers is blistered!"
"Yes; it must have hurt terribly.
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