“I saw her there,” returned Diane, also whispering, “went by on purpose. Now if she’ll just forget to look at her watch and only keep her nose in her book! The electric bell hasn’t been working for a day or two, so she’ll not be reminded.”
They waited a few minutes, then Isabel slipped up to the door and with two or three “stickers,” hastily pasted up a notice which she had been carrying for days.
NO CICERO TODAY
ADVANCED LESSON OF
TEN LINES
“Now you go up front,” said Isabel, “and head ’em off there. Tell ’em notice up, no lesson today.
“I’ll stay to watch her and catch ’em from upstairs, and the outside door. She’ll never suspect me if she does come out an’ spoil it all, ’cause I’m not in the class.”
“She might think we’d had you put the notice up. Ten lines looks a little suspicious, doesn’t it?”
“Yes, because she would give at least thirty, Grace said, but the class wouldn’t get any good of it if they had to get a whole lesson, and after all this trouble!”
“Well, don’t let anybody get by you to try the door,—by mistake, of course; nobody would want to!”