In the lavatory they encountered Muriel and Ronny. Lucy had already
preceded them and gone to pay Katherine a morning call. Presently the
Five Travelers and Katherine trooped down the wide stairway to
breakfast, their bright, youthful faces and clear, laughing tones
lending new life to staid Wayland Hall. At the foot of the stairway
they met Miss Remson and hailed her with a concerted "Good morning."
Her small, shrewd eyes softened, as she received the gay salute with a
smile and returned it. Her liking for this particular sextette of
students was very sincere.
"Girls," she began abruptly, her smile fading, to be replaced by an
expression of sternness, "Will you come into my office after breakfast?
I have something to show you and also something to tell you." Her lips
tightened to grimness as she made this announcement. "That's all." With
a little nod she passed them and hurried on up the staircase.
As she had been busily engaged with the affairs of the Hall on their
arrival of the preceding afternoon, they had had opportunity only to
greet her and be assigned to their old rooms and places at table.
Entering the dining room, Vera and Leila called "Good morning" from the
next table to their own.
"Be with you in a minute," Leila informed them. "I've something to
report, Lieutenant." This directly to Marjorie. During the Easter visit
she and Vera had made Marjorie, she had taken delightedly to the army
idea as carried out by the Deans. Afterward she frequently addressed
Marjorie as "Lieutenant."
"I know what it is," promptly returned Jerry. "So have we. We just saw
Miss Remson. Is that what you are driving at?"
"It is. Now what shall I do to you for snapping my news from my mouth?"
Leila asked severely.
"Maybe I don't know as much as you do, so you needn't feel grieved,"
conciliated Jerry. "Come over here and we will compare notes. I may know
something you don't know. You may know something I don't know. Think
what a wonderful information session we shall have."
Hurriedly finishing her coffee, Leila rose and joined the Lookouts. "I
won't sit down," she declined, as Ronny motioned her to draw up a nearby
chair. "Miss Remson asked Vera and I to stop at her office after
breakfast."
"She asked us, too. There, I took Jerry's news away from her. That pays
up for what she did to you." Muriel glanced teasingly at Jerry.
"Oh, go as far as you like." Jerry waved an elaborately careless hand.
"Like the race in Alice in Wonderland: 'All won.' Perhaps one of you
wise women of Hamilton can tell us if anyone else is invited to Busy
Buzzy's office party."
"Silence was the answer," put in Marjorie mischievously, as no one
essayed a reply to Jerry's satirical question.
"Helen ought to be," Jerry said stoutly. "She was with us to the letter
last spring. I guess she'll be there. Miss Remson is fond of her."
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