CHAPTER VIII.
THE DROWNED GIRL.

SIMEON was a very passionate boy.
He seemed to have hardly any control
over himself, when he got angry. He
did a terrible thing once, in the heat of
passion. A relative of the Ball family—
a cousin, I believe, of Captain Ball’s chil-
dren—had come on from Boston, and
was staying for a few weeks in Willow
Lane. She had brought a bathing dress —