“Well, I really must go!” she announced, and this time she did, hurrying past the bound and recumbent ram that seemed to eye her with much malevolence. But he was helpless now.
Arden hurried up through the orchard, turning for a final look at the scene of her latest adventure. She saw Anson bringing a wheelbarrow out of the shed to be used in taking the ram to a new prison. Then she ran to Bordmust and reached it just in time for English lit.
CHAPTER XXVI
The Challenge
Terry and Sim were in other rooms, so Arden did not see her chums until after the last class of the day. Then she met them on the steps of Bordmust, where they usually waited for one another.
If ever Arden astonished Terry and Sim, it was on this occasion, when she related her startling adventure with the ram.
“No, never!” gasped Terry in disbelief.
“Yes,” asserted Arden.
“Oh, my aunt’s cat!” shouted Sim, and then she and Terry went into spasms of laughter. Though they realized Arden had been in some danger, the funny side of it was now uppermost in their minds.
“Let’s go over to the orchard and look around,” suggested Terry as their mirth subsided.
“There won’t be anything to look at, now that Arden is out,” said Sim.