Cora Kidder was next called upon to testify. She was very pale and plainly
nervous. She realized that having slept in the same tent with two of the
Meadow-Brook Girls, a certain amount of suspicion would be attached to her
not knowing anything about the exciting occurrence of the previous night
in her tent. In answer to the first question which was the same as had
been put to Patricia, Miss Kidder said:

"I did not wake up, Mrs. Livingston. I--I may have heard something, but if
so I--I don't remember anything about it now."

"You must be a sound sleeper," observed the Chief Guardian.

"I have been since coming to Camp Wau-Wau. I'm just 'dead,' the moment I
get into bed. I was hardly awake when I stumbled out of the tent in
response to the general alarm last night calling us all out. I fell over a
tent rope and that woke me up a little."

Tommy laughed, but fortunately the examiner did not hear her. Harriet
nudged Grace to warn her to be quiet.

"You have no idea that would give you any clue to the perpetrators of this
affair?"

"No, Mrs. Livingston."

"Is there any other person among the girls who has anything to say or who
can give us any information?"

The silence was tense. The Chief Guardian's eyes traveled slowly over the