ppened here last night?" added Nellie Bane in such an exact imitation
of Miss Ada's manner that the girls giggled delightedly.

"Look out," cried Connie Danvers, in a whisper, for Amanda and the
"Shadow" had just come into the room. "If you are not careful our
wicked plot will yet be discovered."

"What is it you wanted to say, Billie?" asked Caroline in her
matter-of-fact tone. "If it's anything very private, I guess we'd better
move."

Caroline had been thinking about Rose and the happening of the night
before--thinking till her head ached--but she had not yet decided what
to do about it. As for Rose--her head ached, too--she knew what she was
going to do about it. Some way or other she was going to get even with
Billie! And Caroline, too, big snooping, spectacled thing!

"It isn't a bit private," said Billie, looking so serious that the girls
suddenly became serious too. "It was about something I saw last night
after----" she was about to say "after the party," but as Amanda and her
"Shadow" had come dangerously near and were listening with all their
ears, she decided not to.

"Well, what was it you saw?" the girls demanded impatiently, as she
hesitated.

Billie lowered her voice and spoke hurriedly.

"I saw him going across the lawn. He was running, and while I watched he
disappeared among the trees near the lake."

"A man?" asked Vi while the others stared.

"Of course," Billie nodded impatiently. "What did you think it was--a
grizzly bear?"

"It might have bees from your description," Vi retorted, but right here
the girls broke in with a running fire of questions and Billie was kept
busy trying to answer them all at once.

"But, Billie, why didn't you tell somebody?" Vi asked, but Laura crushed
her with a look.

"Tell somebody?" she repeated scornfully. "How could she and give the
whole----"

But this time it was Laura who suddenly came to a standstill, the reason
being a vicious little pinch from Billie in the fleshy part of her arm.

"Hush!" she whispered fiercely while all the girls looked alarmed.
"Haven't you any sense at all?"

And Laura, feeling very sheepish, did not even answer back. For Amanda
and the "Shadow" were still making excuses to hang around.

"But, Billie, what are we going to do about it?" asked Connie nervously.

"Yes, we don't want funny looking men wandering around our campus at
night," said Rose, lazily straightening a ruffle on her dress.

"No, nor in the day time e