A MIDNIGHT EPISODE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 105, 27 January 1939, Page 5

A MIDNIGHT EPISODE

Girl Who Arrived Home Late Rules and regulations often prove irksome. Al least: that is the view of one of the girls working in a Wellington establishment where tire employees live in. The authorities require the girls in their employ to be in by 10.30 p.m. Gn a recent evening, however, the girl in question was out till midnight, and though one of her friends left a window open pending her late arrival home, a maid closed it. How to get. in was a problem that was not easily solved for, though the girl managed to climb in through another window, she discovered that the door in the room .she had entered was locked. She was thus unable to reach her bedroom. To give her greater, freedom when she arrived outside again she took off her shoes and stockings and hid them, together with- a few personal effects, before clambering out of the window. It was cold and miserable in the drizzling rain outside. Nothing daunted, she walked round the building and saw that her only chance of entering by another route was through a tiny window on (lie first tloor. Ascending a sleep clay bank she at last came level with the window ami. witli a great effort, heaved herself on to the sill. Within all was still. Silently she lowered herself into the room, .where she paused before creeping to tlie door. All was darkness as she tip-toed down the corridor. She must not disturb'anyone now. At last she reached her door and. opening it noiselessly, entered the safety of her room. A pleasant evening, she reflected, had ended with a deal of excitement and tlie knowledge that on this occasion at least she had bettered the authorities.

But’next morning everyone .knew she had come in late—there was a trail of muddy footprints from the window she had entered to tlie door of her room.