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The Rebel of the School by L. T. Meade
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information of another sort, do you think it ought to be allowed?"

"And who will prevent it, darling? That is the question," said Kathleen
in her softest voice.

Alice was silent.

"I tell you what," said Kathleen. "When I see you beginning to help your
poor, exhausted mother, and running messages for that overworked
slavey--I think you call her Maria--then perhaps I'll do less. And when
there's some one else to mend the boys' socks, perhaps I won't offer;
but until there is, the less you say about such things the better, Miss
Alice Tennant."

Ben kicked David under the table, and David kicked him back to stay
quiet. Altogether the breakfast was a noisy one.

Kathleen went to school quite prepared to carry out her promise to Susy
Hopkins. She had neatly packed the little Irish diamond brooch in a box,
and had slipped under it a tiny note:

"Get as many foundation girls as you can to meet me, at
whatever place you like to appoint, this evening. I have a
plan to propose.--KATHLEEN O'HARA.

"_P.S._--You can name the place by pinning a note under my
desk. Be sure you all come. The plan is gloryious."

The thought of the note and the plan and the little brooch kept Kathleen
in a fairly good humor on her walk to school. There she saw Ruth Craven.
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