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Updated: June 18, 2025
When Anne Pierson and I were freshmen in Oakdale High School we recited algebra to a teacher named Miss Leece, who behaved toward Anne in precisely the same way that Miss Wharton has behaved toward me, simply because she disliked her. But come on, old comrade, we mustn't stand out here all night with the wind howling in our ears. Let us try and forget our troubles. What is to be, will be.
"Help!" cried the girls, trying to defend the absurd thing from the attack, but they were too late. One of the boys seized the pole and rushed off in the darkness. Miss Leece, in effigy, had been kidnapped in an instant, before David and his friends had had time to realize what had happened. "Which way did they go?" he asked breathlessly. "Through the thicket," cried Grace.
Plume glanced at the latter, a pencil scrawl of his wife's inseparable companion, and, for aught he knew, confidante. "Madame," he could make out, and "affreusement" something, but it was enough. The orderly supplemented: "Leece, sir, says the lady is very bad " "Go to her, Plume," with startling promptitude cried the colonel. "I'll look to everything here.
Suppose, for instance, we use Marian's Jack-o'-lantern for the head. I'll put some little electric bulbs in the eye holes and attach them to a battery so that we can turn her eyes off and on. And we'll ride her on a broomstick in good style." "Only, nobody must know it's Miss Leece whose being effigied," urged Grace. "This must be merely for our own private satisfaction.
"Who, having once seen it could ever forget it?" And so Miss Leece and Miriam had combined forces against poor little Anne! "Aunt Rose," exclaimed Tom Gray, several mornings after the Christmas dance, "I have a scheme; but, before I ask your permission to carry it out, I want you to grant it." "Why do you ask it at all, then, Tom, dear?" answered his aunt.
"Is this yours, Anne?" she asked. Anne started violently. "O Miss Thompson," she cried, making a great effort to keep back her tears, "where did you find it? I spent one entire afternoon here looking for it. It was the very day you and Miss Leece were here." "Oh, you saw us then," replied the principal. "And where were you?" "I was outside on the steps," replied Anne.
Then Grace related the incident in the algebra class and the long succession of insults Anne had endured from the terrible Miss Leece. "Dear, dear," murmured Miss Thompson, "this looks like persecution and very strong favoritism on the part of Miss Leece. A thing we wish to keep out of the school as much as possible.
"I think I must be dreaming," replied Anne, looking sorrowfully at Miss Leece. "Miss Pierson," thundered the teacher, "you are aware, I believe, that I permit no conversation in this class. Stupidity and inattention are not to be supported in any student, and I must ask you to leave the room." Anne rose in a dazed sort of way, looking very small and shabby as she left the room.
"Young ladies," exclaimed Nora O'Malley, trailing her cape after her to make her skirts look longer, and twisting her mouth down to give her face a severe expression, "you are not in your usual form to-day. I must ask for better preparation hereafter." There was a peal of joyous laughter from the other girls. "Miss Leece to a dot," cried Jessica.
I think I'll just have to give it up, and try to rest a little before to-morrow, or I'll never be fit to try for that prize." As she started down the broad staircase she heard the rasping voice of Miss Leece mingling with the principal's cool, well-modulated tones. Anne paused a moment, watching the two figures below.
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