“How should I know?” roared Josiah Crabtree. “Take him off! He’ll have my hair out by the roots!”
“What a pretty monkey!” cried Pepper. “Is he your pet, Mr. Crabtree?”
“My pet? Never! Take him away!” And the teacher continued to dance around.
Several darted in to secure the monkey, but like a flash the animal leaped to a fixture suspended from the ceiling, and then swung himself to a hall window and slipped outside.
“He has gone!”
“Let us catch him!”
“Whose monkey is it?”
“He must have come over from the circus,” said Jack. “They said a lot of them had gotten away.”
“I’ll sue the circus proprietor for this!” howled Josiah Crabtree. “It’s an outrage on the public. Oh, my poor head!” And he ran back into his room, banging the door behind him.
“Has the monkey gone?” asked Captain Putnam.