“She’s not reported. She isn’t here. Nobody’s seen her. She hasn’t come into town, as far as I can find out. And certain sure she hasn’t come into this building—and it’s one o’clock now!”
“Why, Clara! what do you mean?” asked the physical instructor of Central High. “It is not possible that Evangeline Sitz would fail to appear at such a time as this?”
“And with so much depending on her?” shrieked Jess Morse. “Impossible!”
“Something has happened to her,” said Laura, aghast.
“Has nobody seen her?” demanded Mrs. Case.
Nobody had.
“I’ll run to father’s office and telephone,” suggested Nellie Agnew. “They have a telephone at the Sitz farm, haven’t they?”
“Of course,” rejoined Laura. “Do run, Nell!”
The group, mostly made up of juniors, was horror-stricken by the fact that one of the most dependable of the girls was missing. But a senior who stood near said, scoffingly:
“Oh, I guess that girl won’t be missed. We’ve got Lou Potter to put right in her place—in both the shot-put and the broad jump. And the chance belonged to Lou, anyway. Now she’ll get her rights, perhaps.”