“I wonder! Cathalina, do you think he would go to the trouble to fix up things that way for Donald, so perhaps he would miss the reception?”
“Oh, no. That would be so trifling a thing for an officer to do. I can’t imagine it.”
“He has done some awfully funny things, though. There was the time he met his sister outside of the hall.”
“He explained that pretty well—at the time.”
“Yes, I suppose so. Then what was he doing with those queer men at the cave?”
“That is strange. But we ought to be careful not to say much, unless we feel pretty sure something was wrong.”
“You know how careful we have been. But I can’t help wondering sometimes. If he has been at the bottom of that trouble of Donald’s!”
“It would be pretty hard to connect him with it!” finished Cathalina. “But I do hope that Donald will find out who put those things in his room and who called him away. I imagine that it was some of those cadets revenging themselves a little, don’t you?”
“That is the most likely explanation.”