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Grace Harlowe’s Plebe Year at High School

CHAPTER VI
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Fortunately, it was not a very sloping roof, and their only danger lay in their movements being heard from below.

Meanwhile the gymnasium had emptied itself, and parties of enraged sophomores were engaged in searching the adjoining class rooms and passages.
"Let's surround the building on the outside," cried one of the class leaders.

"They can't escape, then, by any of the fire escapes, and we are sure to catch them!" In a few moments, David peeping over the edge of the roof, saw figures stationed at every possible exit, waiting patiently.
"Lie low," he whispered, "and crawl on your stomachs, or you're surely caught." Soon after the seven had reached the end of the hundred feet of gymnasium, where their flight was stopped short by a blank wall where the gymnasium joined the High School building.
"Here's a pretty pass," whispered David.

"I forgot about this old school wall.

The only thing to do, now, is to hide behind this chimney and wait for the row to quiet down." There they lay, as flat as possible, listening with bated breath to the sophomores below.


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