"
"Then send some one to see, Miss Ravenscroft. One or two of the teachers
would be the best. They could go to the quarry to-night and wait there
in order to see if the girls arrive. If they do, my orders are that they
take no apparent notice of them, but write down the names of all
present. If that can be done, and you are successful in finding the
girls, we shall have the matter, as it were, in a nutshell, and we shall
soon crush this disgraceful rebellion."
"And what about Kathleen?" asked Miss Ravenscroft.
"There is very little doubt that she will have to be expelled. Such a
girl as that is a firebrand in a school, and however rich she may be,
and however well-born, the sooner she leaves us the better."
CHAPTER XXI.
THE SOCIETY MEETS AT MRS. CHURCH'S COTTAGE.
That evening at about a quarter to eight a band of perfectly silent
girls might have been seen walking along the road that led to Mrs.
Church's cottage. They walked as much as possible on the grass, and
glided in single file. Each one, as they expressed it, had her heart in
her mouth. Occasionally they looked behind them; sometimes they started
at an ordinary shadow, thinking that a policeman at least would be
waiting for them. The foundationers who called themselves the Wild Irish
Girls had very little doubt what it would mean if their scheme was
discovered. They knew, of course, that Miss Ravenscroft would be
furiously angry, that the governors would have something to say to them,
and that they might be dismissed from the school unless they promised to
cease to belong to the society.
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