Belton fell on his knees and crawled to the window, and pulling it up cautiously peeped in.

He saw the colored teacher in the chair in the center of the room and others sitting about here and there.

He gazed with rapture on the sight.

He watched, unmolested, for a long while.
One of the lady teachers was tearing up a piece of paper and arose to come to the window to throw it out.

Belton was listening, just at that time, to what the colored teacher was saying, and did not see the lady coming in his direction.