[Grace Harlowe’s Third Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham Flower]@TWC D-Link bookGrace Harlowe’s Third Year at Overton College CHAPTER IX 7/16
The souvenirs consisted mainly of small black and white or water color sketches contributed by the artistic element of Overton. Occupying one entire end of the room was the circus ring, and on this public attention was centered.
A gayly decorated poster at the door bore the pleasing information that there would be four performances, at two-thirty, four-thirty, eight-thirty, and nine-thirty, respectively, in which would appear the "Celebrated Alice in Wonderland Animals." The club had originally planned to keep the matter of the circus as a surprise until the patrons of the bazaar should enter the gymnasium, but in some mysterious manner the secret had leaked out.
Even the identity of certain animals was known, and when this unpleasant news had reached the ears of the "animals" themselves a meeting was called, which almost put an end to the circus then and there.
After due consideration the performers agreed to go on with the spectacle, but many and indignant were the theories advanced as to the manner in which the news had traveled abroad.
That the information had gone forth through a member of the club or any one taking part in the circus no one of them believed. Complete ostracism threatened the offender or offenders provided she or they, as the case might be, were discovered.
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