CHAPTER VII
IN THE DORMITORY
After a survey of several minutes of the dark and seemingly innocent room, the guardian of school discipline seemed satisfied, closed the door, and her footsteps died away at the end of the hall.
If she could have heard the bursts of smothered laughter as the lights were turned on and Laura and Bess, almost exhausted by their efforts to keep up that steady breathing, tumbled from the bed and the others rose from their hiding places and shook and stretched themselves to get the cramps out of their limbs!
"That was a close call," gurgled Nan, breathless with suppressed laughter, while Grace asked chokingly:
"How did you ever do that sleeping act so perfectly and keep it up so long?"
"Just genius," answered Laura complacently. "I got so in the spirit of it that I came near snoring."
"Is that so?" scoffed Rhoda. "Strange that we never noticed it before."