Bridget's--you look for the other girls
"One--Chelsea--Chelsea Perkins, and I'm not at all surprised that
she's mixed up in this. She gives me no end of trouble."
"OK--do you have any idea where she might be right now, because
wherever she is, the others might be," the nurse points out.
"I think so," Mr. Anderson says. "You know they serve
snacks after classes in the dining hall, but it's always healthy
things, and those girls usually sneak into the kitchen to wheedle
sweets out of the cook. I bet they're there!"
"Good work, Mr. Anderson," you say. "Let's go!"
You reach the kitchen without mishap and enter quietly, Nurse Johnson
and Mr. Anderson in the lead with their fingers against their lips to
signal "no sound". Your group crouches behind the stove to
watch and listen.
"Hi, Mrs. Kent," you hear a voice say soon. Mr. Anderson
tells you through hand gestures and mouthed words that the owner of
the voice is Esmerelda Stevens. He then signals to you that Chelsea
Perkins and Dorothy Abbott are with her.
"Hello, girls...uh...how's everything going...up there?"
Mrs. Kent strangely and conmpiritorially lowers her voice. The girls
take the hint and lower theirs, but you catch a few
words--"Della", "chocolate", "scared
everybody", etc. Then you hear "get Anderson fired".
You gasp, but cover your mouth, and advise Mr. Anderson and Nurse
Johnson to...
"Bridget's right," Nurse Johnson agrees. "Let's go see
if we can find those girls. Chris, do you have any of them in your
English classes?"
