hed to the casement and ran up the shade.
They could see nothing. There was no light in the roadway before the
house. Ann opened the window and leaned out.
"Nobody down there throwing up gravel, that's sure," she declared, drawing
in her head again, and shutting the window.
Just as they returned to their books the scratching, squeaking noise broke
out again. This time Ruth ran to see.
"Nothing!" she confessed.
"What do you suppose it can be?" asked Helen nervously. "I declare, I
can't study any more. That gets on my nerves."
Mrs. Smith put in her head at that moment. "Of course you haven't seen
that boy, any of you?" she asked sharply.
The three older girls looked at each other; Amy Gregg continued to pore
over her book. No; Ruth, Helen and Ann could honestly tell Mrs. Smith that
they had not seen Curly.
"Well, the young rascal has slipped out. I went up to his door to take him
some clothes I had mended, and he didn't answer. So I opened the door, and
his bed hasn't been touched, and he went up an hour ago. He's slipped out
over the shed roof, for his window's open; though I don't see how he dared
drop to the ground. It's twenty feet if it's an inch," Mrs. Smith said
sternly.
"I shall wait up for him and catch him when he comes back. I'll learn him
to go out nights without me knowin' of it."
She went away, stepping wrathfully. "Goodness! I'm sorry for that boy,"
said Ann, beginning leisurely to prepare for bed.
But Ruth watched Amy Gregg curiously. She saw the smaller girl flush and
pale and glance now and then toward the window. Ruth jumped to a sudden
conclusion. Curly was somewhere outside that window on the roof!
CHAPTER XV
A DAWNING POSSIBILITY
"Well, the evening's spoiled anyway," yawned Helen, seeing Ann braiding
her hair. "I might as well stop, too," and she closed her books with
relief.
"It's time small girls were on their way to the Land of Nod," said the
Western girl, taking the book from the resisting hand of Amy Gregg.
"Hullo! i
Notka biograficzna
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain.
John Middleton Murry (August 6, 1889 March 12, 1957) was an English writer. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married, as her second husband, in 1918. Following her death, he edited her work. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, along with the writer Joyce Cary, a lifelong friend.