`` If you knew how awful the whole thing was , '' said Faith with a shiver , `` you would think we had been punished enough already . I would n'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 did n'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 side of your mouth if you 'd been there . And how are we to be punished ? I do n't think it 's fair , but let 's know what we have to do , Judge Meredith ! '' `` The way I look at it , '' said Jerry , frowning , `` is that Carl was the most to blame . He bolted first , as I understand it . Besides , he was a boy , so he should have stood his ground to protect you girls , whatever the danger was . You know that , Carl , do n't you ? '' `` I s ` pose so , '' growled Carl shamefacedly . `` Very well . This is to be your punishment . To-night you 'll sit on Mr. Hezekiah Pollock 's tombstone in the graveyard alone , until twelve o'clock . '' Carl gave a little shudder . The graveyard was not so very far from the old Bailey garden .
It would be a trying ordeal , but XXXXX was anxious to wipe out his disgrace and prove that he was not a coward after all .
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