"Girls!" The clear voice cut crisply across the excited babble of girls' voices. "What does this mean?"
CHAPTER XII
ROBBED
The students turned to find Miss Jane Romaine on the steps.
For a moment there was silence out of respect for the presence of the beloved head of Laurel Hall.
Then pandemonium broke loose again, the girls surging toward the slender, commanding figure on the steps.
Miss Romaine raised her hand and frowned slightly. Again silence fell, although some of the girls looked as though they would burst with the importance of the news they had to tell.
"Doris Maybel," Miss Romaine singled out the girl standing with Jessie Robinson, "suppose you tell me what the trouble is?"
Doris Maybel, short and blonde and very pretty, stepped forward quickly.
"Some of the girls and I thought we would like to try out the new apparatus we have in the gym, Miss Jane——"