College stories; Women college students -- Juvenile fiction
"We're here at last, although we never expected to be and it's been
rather difficult getting here. Some way or other the sophs found out
that we were to have the banquet to-night and they suspected we three
girls would speak. They evidently decided it was too late to break up
the banquet entirely, but the next best thing seemed to be to kidnap
us and keep us locked up until it was too late to think of leaving the
Hill. I left Wellington about three o'clock and walked down back of the
dormitory, intending to take the electrics over at Canton Corners for
Boston and then take the train at the South Station.
"Before I had gone very far Elsie Atherton overtook me and asked me
where I was going. Not daring to say 'in town,' I told her I was going
for a little walk, for I hoped she would leave me at the Corners, and
then I could walk farther down the street to take the car. But she
replied that she was out walking, too, and suggested that I go down to
her aunt's on Oliver Street for a few moments, as she had an errand
to do there. I knew I had several hours ahead of me and that it would
be less suspicious if I went with her than if I refused and boarded a
car. I consented, and we soon reached her aunt's house. A maid let us
in and said that Mrs. Wolcott was upstairs and wished us to go to her
room. I followed Elsie up the stairs and we entered what I supposed
was Mrs. Wolcott's room. Instead of meeting Mrs. Wolcott, a masked
figure approached me and before I could realize what was happening I
was seized by several other masked figures and blindfolded. Then I was
commanded to sit down and my hands and feet were bound securely to the
chair. Some one whispered in my ear, 'Now get to Langley Inn if you
can,' and they left the room and locked the door behind them.
"How long I sat there I do not know, but I twisted and turned and tried
every way to free myself, but it was no use. In course of time the door
was unlocked and some one else was brought in and bound to a chair as
I had been, and I heard again the whisper, 'Now get to Langley Inn in
time for your banquet if you can.' And then the door was locked. It
did not take me long to discover that my companion in misery was Jean
Cabot, and we were comparing our experiences and trying to plan our
escape when the door opened again and a third victim was brought in,
securely fastened as we had been, and given the same suggestion that
had been given to us.
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