and then I want to sleep and sleep and sleep, and then I will not know for a long time that I am put out of the Normal School."
CHAPTER X THE CHAIRMAN MAKES A SPEECH
The wild uproar of the gymnasium entertainment did not compare in intensity with the suppressed excitement of the day following examinations. There were no school-exercises except a chapel-service in the morning, which the students wished might be longer, since it was all they had to occupy them during the long and tedious day. The girls wandered about from room to room, the Seniors, who were to have a vacation of a week before Commencement, packing their trunks half-heartedly, the others doing nothing. It did not seem worth while to begin anything until one knew whether one was to return.
The Board was closeted down in the principal's office, where they worked from breakfast till dark. Sometimes a student, passing through the hall when the door was opened, saw them laboring at long tables, each with a great pile of papers before him and a pitcher of water hard by. If the student had hoped for hot weather so that the Board might be uncomfortable, he prayed now much more fervently that their tempers might not be influenced by the heat.
"They say the marks go down five points whenever the thermometer goes up one," laughed Edward Ellis.
Sarah slept until long after breakfast-time. When she woke Miss Ellingwood was writing at her desk.
"Am I put out?" asked Sarah faintly.
"Not yet," answered Miss Ellingwood. "Here is some breakfast for you."