CHAPTER VIII.
MISS LEECE Yes, there stood the hideous, grotesque effigy just where her abductors had left her the night before, her green veil floating in the breezes.
As a figure of fun and an object of ridicule, she might not have created more than a ripple with the faculty.

But it was evident that Miss Leece's function, even in effigy, was to make trouble.
And trouble was certainly brewing that memorable morning.

The figure itself might never have been recognized, but a placard which had been pinned on the front of the old ulster left no room for doubt.

Across it had been inscribed in large printed letters: "THE MOST UNPOPULAR TEACHER IN SCHOOL." No one dared take the effigy away for fear of being implicated.
Everybody had seen it, both men and women professors and the boys and girls of the two schools.

But it was not until Miss Thompson, the principal of the Girls' High School, had arrived that the figure was removed.
"How could those boys have been so mean!" exclaimed Grace to her three friends just before the gong sounded.