The other sleds poured down and stopped; but none had been in so much danger as that first one. Laura and Chet and their friends started on the run for the spot--and for Janet Steele. "Oh! _Oh! OH!_" shrieked in crescendo one girl who had ridden on the first bobsled. "We might have been killed!" Some of the boys ran after the horse. The rest of the young people surrounded Janet Steele. "How brave you were," murmured Jess Morse admiringly. "You've got a head on you, sure enough!" exclaimed Bobby Hargrew, while the Red Cross girl, blushing and with downcast eyes, began hastily to adjust her veil again. "Oh, it was nothing," murmured Janet. "Tell it to Lily. Here comes Lily Pendleton," said Jess, smiling again. "She won't think it was nothing." The girl who had shrieked so loudly came up quickly to the group of Central High girls. "Did you turn that horse?" she demanded of Janet Steele. "You are a regular duck! We might have all been killed! I never will ride down a hill with Freddy Brubach again! There should have been somebody down here to signal that we were coming!" "Guess the horse would not have paid much attention to signals, Lil," laughed Laura. "Only the kind that Miss Steele waved," added Bobby. "Is that your name?" Lily Pendleton asked the Red Cross girl. "I'm awfully glad to know you." "And much gladder that she was right on the job here when the horse came along, aren't you, Lil?" chuckled Bobby. "She ought to have a medal," declared one of the other girls. "Let's write to Mr. Carnegie about her," proposed Jess, but good-naturedly, and hugged Janet now that she had rearranged her veil. "Oh, dear me!" gasped Janet Steele, "please don't make so much over so little. I shall almost be sorry that I turned the horse into the lane. And it was a little thing. I am not afraid of horses." "A mere medal is nothing to Miss Steele, I bet," said Bobby, the emphatic. "I expect she has a trunk full of 'em. Like the German army officer who had his chest covered with iron crosses and medals and the like. Somebody asked him how he came to get them all. "'Vell,' he said, pointing to the biggest and shiniest medal, 'I got dot py meestake; undt dey gif me de odders pecause I got dot one!'" "Oh, you and your jokes, Bobby!" said Lily Pendleton, with some scorn. "This was a serious business. And there is another very serious matter, girls, that I have to call to your attention," she added, turning to Laura and Jess. "What has gone wrong? Nothing about the play, I hope!" cried Jess. "It is worse, because it is right at hand," said Lily, shaking her head. "What do you suppose Miss Carrington has done?" "Oh, Gee Gee!" groaned Bobby, in despair. "I knew she would break out in a fresh spot." "Do tell us what it is," begged Jess Morse. "It is about Hessie," said Lily. "Hester Grimes?" demanded Laura, with a rather grim expression. "What has happened to her now?"