Her eyes began to shine. “Surely I’ll find something important behind that door,” she thought. “It’d be a rich joke on Jo and Florence if I should be the one to make some great discovery.”
With her heart thumping rapidly she walked down to the door, peeped in, then cautiously opened the door wider and stepped inside. To her great disappointment the room was absolutely bare.
“Just my luck!” she groaned. “I thought surely I was going to find something interesting to show the girls.”
Disgusted, she hurried out of the room and back to the passage, then turned quickly to her left and hastened on.
“One more turn, and I’ll be back in the main tunnel,” she told herself.
When she had gone a short distance, she discovered that the passage apparently ended a few feet ahead.
“Why, this isn’t the way I came!” she cried in alarm. Her heart seemed to leap up into her throat, and her eyes dilated in horror. “Why, I’m lost! Lost!”
The next moment she ordered herself sternly, “Don’t lose your head! Go back and retrace your steps to that opening. You’ve taken the wrong turn—that’s all.”
With a fresh grip on her emotions she wheeled about and walked to the opening from which she had just emerged.
“Oh, here’s where I made my mistake!” she exclaimed in relief. “I turned to the left instead of the right. What a stupid I was!”