I saw several girls with the paper, but hadn't the remotest idea what it was all about.

You know Miss Thompson is awfully down on 'skipping school.' She threatened last year to suspend Edna Wright for it." "There will be weeping and wailing in the 'Skull and Crossbones' crowd,'" exclaimed Nora.

"They are all in this mix-up, and if they aren't suspended, they'll be lucky." "Are you going to stand up for Eleanor now, in the face of what she said about all of us before those girls, Grace ?" asked Marian Barber hotly.
"No," said Grace shortly.

"She deserves to be punished.

The things she said to Miss Thompson were disgraceful, and I shall never forgive her for the way she spoke of us." "I wouldn't say that, Grace," remarked Anne.