CHAPTER XIII

BELOW MOOSE HILLOCK



It was not long before the bare rooms of the
Academy School--owing to the political situation,
which necessitated the exercise of economies in
every direction--began to suffer.

One night the students found the gas turned out
and a small card tacked on the door of the outer hall.
It read--

SCHOOL CLOSED FOR WANT OF

FUNDS. WILL PERHAPS BE

OPENED IN THE AUTUMN.


Signs of like character were not unusual in the history
of the school. The wonder was, considering the
vicissitudes through which the Academy had passed,
that it was opened at all. From the institution's earlier
beginnings in the old house on Bond Street, to
its flight from the loft close to Grace Church and
then to the abandoned building opposite the old hotel