“Dare you,” came a chorus.
“She’s just under the stair,” whispered Lena Berg. “Drop it down, heavy.”
The temptation was too great. Edna slipped over to the rail, took aim, and let the bunch of green burs go!
CHAPTER XVI
SURPRISES
“We’ll be caught!”
“Run! Run!”
“It will do no good,” said Rose-Mary. “Miss Bylow knows we had the burrs.”
This statement was true, and the girls in the upper hallway looked at each other in consternation. Then one of them, quick of wit, leaned over the railing.
“Oh, Miss Bylow,” she said. “Did that hit you? How provoking!”