The door of our room was locked, however.

We knocked repeatedly, and it was at last opened by a young woman who said the room was hers and refused to allow us to enter it." During this brief recital Mrs.Elwood looked first amazed, then incredulous.

Her final expression was one of lively displeasure, and with the exclamation, "I might have known it!" she marched upstairs with the air of a grenadier, the girls filing in her wake.

Pausing before the door she listened intently.

The sound of some one moving within could be heard distinctly.