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"I shan't bang unless there is nothing else to do, and then I'm sure I can explain. A Montana girl from a real ranch ought to have some credit for field work." Jane was twirling her capable brassie with rather a dangerous swing and the odd weapon now seemed formidable indeed. "What's that?" exclaimed Dozia, as a shadow almost tripped them. "It's an animal I know but "
I know that 'cause that black haired one has a queer name and the box was for some Sarah Something. But I guess she'll get it all right," he finished with a professional air of certainty. "She comes there a lot." "A box of jewelry for little Sarah Howland," said Jane to Dozia. "And the sobbing in the back room," whispered Dozia in answer.
"Well, she had more than a scream to put in her important part, so she said! She had also to do some wild acting and Dol Vin is responsible for the idea of Madam Zwachevsky " "Oh, spare us," cried Jane. "That sounds like an epidemic." "It's the name she wastes ink on, but I will spare you girls. Hereafter she shall be Madam Z," agreed Shirley. "Oh, hurry! Shirley," entreated Dozia.
"Your night of terror," finished Judith. "I don't wonder. Anyone might be sore and achey from running that Bingham Fire Brigade. I would love to have seen Dozia at the spigot," and Judith went through some fire antics.
"Dozia was a little bit reckless of course," admitted the mentor, "and she did seem to coddle the fact that her hammer fell on Shirley's head. I recall she even said she was glad it hit her and hoped the blow would send the freshie home to her 'maw." Jane wanted to laugh but she refrained. There was a strange proctor in office this year to be considered.
Then while Dozia slept Jane wondered. What did little Sally Howland mean about taking a room at the attic stairs? And how was that charming little thing implicated with the ghost of Lenox Hall? The plot was thickening. Sally did not in any way answer to the deceitful type, but some mysterious force seemed to overshadow her. "Pretty little thing, with such appealing eyes and so honest "
This resolve met with hearty approval, for it was seconded from many quarters until open revolt or general mutiny seemed imminent. The firemen were driving out with the jog trot of a false alarm, and ghosts or no ghosts, Jane, Dozia and Miss Gifford, each and all realized that those frightened children must be persuaded to go indoors.
"And I shall demand that they search the place. Someone is hidden here." A laugh, empty of mirth but bursting with scorn, followed Jane's accusation. It ran down a falsetto scale like pebbles off a tin roof. Then Dolorez turned to summon her maid. "Yolande!" she called. "Show these persons out." The perplexed darky muttered, "Yes'm," and proceeded to obey, but Jane and Dozia never moved.
There was the broken mirror in Dozia's room and the fact that Dozia had actually hit Shirley on the head with a hammer! "A pretty record that and made on the first night in college," Jane reflected. Undoubtedly the freshman's demand that Jane "see her at once" had to do with the outrage. And the interview would be granted, of course, that very afternoon unless Judith interfered.
She could not entirely hide the fact of her anxiety to get Jane and Dozia behind a closed door. Jane might have understood but Dozia was perplexed. "It's a lovely room," faltered Dozia, "but I feel more like camping out. What time is it, anyhow?" "About two-thirty A. M.," said Jane, "and since the youngsters are safely tucked in, I believe we should take Sally's advice.
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