Hide!

He was about to ask the girl if she had always been bald, or if she had lost her hair at the same time that her vision had been perfected. But just then she hissed: "I hear the supervisor coming. We'll all be in terrible trouble if he sees you. Quick, hide in that closet."

She tugged Fred across to a supply closet that stood against one wall. Fred felt that it was rather ridiculous for him to hide when he was here to destroy the dragon, but since Beatrice was so worried he decided that it would be the gentlemanly thing to do. Velus dashed in after him, and Beatrice shut the door.

Fred still had his boots in one hand and whatever the girl had given him in the other. He hadn't yet had a chance to examine it, and it was too dark to see anything in the closet.

The supervisor came in.

1. All the girls redouble their cleaning and polishing efforts under his stern gaze.
2. One of the girls turns out to be a sneak. "There's a knight in that closet," she says.

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