Chapter XXXI. Carl Does Penance  "I DON'T see why we should be
punished at all," said Faith, rather sulkily. "We didn't do
anything wrong. We couldn't help being frightened. And it won't
do father any harm. It was just an accident."  "You were
cowards," said Jerry with judicial scorn, "and you gave way to
your cowardice. That is why you should be punished. Everybody
will laugh at you about this, and that is a disgrace to the
family."  "If you knew how awful the whole thing was," said
Faith with a shiver, "you would think we had been punished
enough already. I wouldn't go through it again for anything in
the whole world."  "I believe you'd have run yourself if you'd
been there," muttered Carl.  "From an old woman in a cotton
sheet," mocked Jerry. "Ho, ho, ho!"  "It didn't look a bit like
an old woman," cried Faith. "It was just a great, big, white
thing crawling about in the grass just as Mary Vance said Henry
Warren did. It's all very fine for you to laugh, Jerry Meredith,
but you'd have laughed on the other