"I told them we'd have adventures." Nora expounded her plan to Miss Strong, who was sufficiently interested in the subject to promise her collusion and good advice.

A mock Alpine scene came first.

Nora had brought with her, for this express purpose, a length of rope, which she wore around her jersey like a Carmelite's girdle.

She took it off now and fastened it round the waists of three of her schoolfellows, linking them together in the manner of Swiss mountaineers.

Then she found a piece of rock on which were narrow ledges, and, with the help of Miss Strong, posed them in attitudes of apparent peril.