"Yes?" prompted Miss Romaine as the girl hesitated.
"Well, I guess nobody had been there before to-day. Anyway, there was nobody in the gym when we got there, but when we went to look for our gym suits we found that some of the lockers had been opened and some of the things in them taken. My own new gym suit was taken," she added, in conclusive proof of the robbery.
"And my new tennis racket and balls!" wailed another mourner from the crowd.
Miss Romaine raised her hand again, the furrows between her brows deepening.
"I suppose this must have happened last night," she said, then added sharply, turning to Doris: "Why was I not informed of this before?"
The girl started at the swift change of tone and hastened to justify herself.
"I came to tell you, Miss Jane," she said. "I asked for you everywhere, but no one seemed to know where you had gone. Then I came out here to look for you and met the other girls on their way from the boathouse."
"And some of the lockers were opened there, too, and things taken from them, Miss Jane!" broke in an excited girl in the crowd.
"My rowing suit is gone!" cried another.
Miss Romaine checked the growing confusion with a gesture of her hand.