preparation. I like the monitresses to do all they can for the school,
but they must remember their own work comes first, and that they have to
set an example to the rest. Don't let a thing like this happen again! I
thought you would have had more discretion. The list could have waited a
day or two. I was not in such a hurry for it as all that. It was kindly
meant, but a little excess of zeal, wasn't it? Thank you for it all the
same! There! I'll put it on my desk so that it will be always ready if I
want to refer to it. Now run along, or you won't have time to eat your
lunch before the bell rings."

Merle, hurrying to the dressing-room, inwardly congratulated herself.

"I got jolly well out of a bad business!" she thought. "Miss Mitchell
wasn't very cross after all, and she liked the list! I've got mine in
before Muriel's anyway, and it's going to stay on her desk, so she'll
always have something of mine right under her eyes. She fingered that
saxe-blue ribbon rather lovingly! It exactly matches her sports coat!
I'll make her a calendar for Christmas and put the same kind of ribbon to
hang it up by. But I don't mean to tell a single soul, in case Muriel
goes and does the same! Miss Mitchell is my property, not hers!"




CHAPTER VI

Fishermaidens


Several Saturdays turned out wet, and it was not until the middle of