You 're no better than a common burglar . Give me Camilla Jane , I say ! '' Charlotte came over to the window with the baby in her arms and triumph glittering in her eyes . `` There is no such child as Camilla Jane here , '' she said . `` This is Barbara Jane . She belongs to me . '' With that Mrs. Wheeler pulled down the shade . Miss Rosetta had to go home . There was nothing else for her to do . On her way she met Mr. Patterson and told him in full the story of her wrongs . It was all over Avonlea by night , and created quite a sensation . Avonlea had not had such a toothsome bit of gossip for a long time . Mrs. Wheeler exulted in the possession of Barbara Jane for six weeks , during which Miss Rosetta broke her heart with loneliness and longing , and meditated futile plots for the recovery of the baby . It was hopeless to think of stealing it back or she would have tried to . The hired man at the Wheeler place reported that Mrs. Wheeler never left it night or day for a single moment . She even carried it with her when she went to milk the cows . `` But my turn will come , '' said Miss Rosetta grimly . `` Camilla Jane is mine , and if she was called Barbara for a century it would n't alter that fact ! Barbara , indeed ! Why not have called her Methusaleh and have done with it ? ''
One afternoon in October , when Miss XXXXX was picking her apples and thinking drearily about lost Camilla Jane , a woman came running breathlessly down the hill and into the yard .
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