You say she was in this room?"
"Yes," answered Mrs. Meckelburn.
"And you sat here in view of the door all the while?"
"Yes," spoke Betty. "She never came out of that door, I'm sure." Amy
said the same thing.
"Then the only other possible solution is that she got out of the
window," went on the physician, "for there is no other door from the
room. We must look outside," and he crossed the apartment to the
casement. It had been raised, and the shutters were open when the
unconscious girl had been left alone.
"The window is low--she could easily have dropped to the ground," said
Dr. Brown. "It is not more than four feet."
He leaned out to look at the ground underneath, and uttered an
exclamation.
"That is what she did!" he cried. "There are the marks of feet landing
heavily--small shoes--and unless some of _you_ young ladies have been
indulging in gymnastics."
"And see!" added Betty, standing beside the physician, "here are some of
her long hairs," and she picked some from the window sill. "Oh, she did
have the longest, most glorious hair!" and Betty sighed in memory, for
Betty loved long tresses and her own, while they became her wonderfully
well, were not very luxuriant.
"But I don't see how she could have gotten away, unconscious as she was,
and injured," said Grace, with a puzzled air.
"She may have regained consciousness," spoke Dr.
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