"No interruptions, please! Miss Dalton, go on."
"When I followed I found the runaway was Miss Seaton!"
"Oh, shame!" came from more than one voice. "Spying! Sneaking!"
"I was not," declared Miss Seaton hotly, now on her feet. "I had a perfect right to be in the Allen lines. Why shouldn't I?"
"Miss Dalton has not finished," Jane ordered with a very considerate nod to Marian who still stood, thus claiming the floor. She finally sat down but kept up a mumble for some moments.
"Yes, I found the leader, Marian Seaton, had stolen into our ranks, perhaps to give all our secrets to the opposition," went on Dozia mercilessly, and plainly excited.
"And you tried to tie my feet!" swung in Marian.
"And you tried to gag me!" almost shouted Dozia.
"They both tumbled into the lake," fired in a freshman who never should have spoken, but was too new to know of her disbarment.
A roar of honest laughter greeted this announcement. It was not difficult to picture Dozia trying to tie Marian's feet, and Marian trying to gag Dozia, with the result of both girls rolling into the lake.