imed Ruth, with sudden fright. "Be still."
"I guess you don't know what I know about Gregg, Ruth Fielding," cried the
excited Mary.
"We do not want to know," Ruth said hastily. "Let us stop this wrangling
and turn to our work. Suppose Miss Brokaw should come in?"
"And I guess Miss Brokaw or anybody would want to know what I saw that
night of the fire," declared Mary Pease, wildly. "_I_ know whose room the
fire started in, and _how_ it started."
"Mary!" cried Ruth, rising from her seat, while the girls of the class
uttered wondering exclamations.
But Mary was hysterical now.
"I saw a light in _her_ room!" she cried, pointing an accusing finger at
the white-faced and shaking Amy. "I peeped through the keyhole, and it was
a candle burning on her table. She said she didn't have a candle. Bah!"
"Be still, Mary!" commanded Ruth again.
Amy Gregg was terror-stricken and shrank away from her accuser; but the
latter was too excited to heed Ruth.
"I know all about it. So does Miss Scrimp. I told her. That Amy Gregg left
the candle burning when she went to supper and it fell off her table into
the waste basket.
"And that," concluded Mary Pease, "was how the fire started that burned
down the West Dormitory, and I don't care who knows it, so there!"
CHAPTER XVII
ANOTHER OF CURLY'S TRICKS
Miss Scrimp, the matron of the old West Dormitory, had bound Mary Pease to
secrecy. But, as Jennie put it, "the binding did not hold and _Pease_
spilled the _beans_."
The story flew over the school like wildfire. Miss Scrimp, actually in
tears, was inclined to blame Ruth Fielding for the outbreak of the story.
"You ought to have taken Mary Pease and run her right into a closet!"
declared the matron. "Such behavior!"
Ruth was a good deal chagrined that the story should have come out while
she was monitor; but she really did not see how she could have helped it.
The quarrel between Amy Gregg and Mary Pease had commenced before Ruth had
gone into the classroom.
"And how
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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.