t's time _you_ were in bed, girlie, sure enough. Holding the book
upside down, no less! What do you know about that, ladies?"
"Certainly she should go to bed," Helen said sharply. "We're all sleepy.
Do hurry, child."
"Speak for yourself, Helen," snapped Amy. "I don't have to mind _you_, I
hope."
"You do if you want to get anywhere in this school--and mind every other
senior who is kind enough to notice you," said Ann. "You've not learned
that lesson yet."
"And I don't believe _you_ can teach me," responded the younger girl,
ready to quarrel with anybody. "Give me back my book!"
Ruth went to her and put her arm around Amy's neck. "Don't, dear, be so
fractious," she begged. "We had all to go through a process of 'fagging'
when we first came to Briarwood. It is good for us--part of the
discipline. I asked Mrs. Tellingham to let you come over here with us so
that you really would not be put upon----"
"I don't thank you!" snapped Amy, ungratefully. "I can look out for
myself, I guess. I always have."
"You're like the self-made man," drawled Ann. "You've made an awfully poor
job of it! You need a little discipline, my dear."
"Not from you!" cried the other girl, her eyes flashing.
It took Ruth several minutes to quiet this sea of trouble. It was half an
hour before Amy cried herself to sleep on her couch. The other girls had
both crept into bed and called to Ruth sleepily to put out the light. Ruth
was not undressed; but she did as they requested.
Then she went to the window and opened it. Nothing had been heard from
above since Mrs. Smith had looked in at the chamber door. But Ruth was
sure the grim old woman was waiting at her grandson's window, in the cold
shed bedroom, ready for Curly when he came in.
And Ruth was sure, too, that the boy had not dropped to the ground. _He
was still on the roof_.
"That was a tictac," Ruth told herself. She had heard Tom Cameron's too
many times to mistake the sound. "And Amy was expecting it. Curly had told
her what he was goi
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