osition, for when
she had satisfied the first cravings of her appetite--oh, long before
she came to the cup-custard!--she said:

"Which are you--Cameron, or Fielding? I'm Stone--Jennie Stone."

Ruth told her their names and asked in return:

"Are you on our corridor, too? I know you are rooming in the same
building as Helen and I."

"Yes," said the fat girl. "I'm in a quartette with Mary Cox, Lluella
Fairfax and Belle Tingley. Oh, you'll see plenty of us," said Heavy.
"And I say! you're going to the Upede meeting to-night; aren't you?"

"Why--yes. Do you all belong?"

"Our quartette? Sure," said the plump girl in her off-hand way.
"We'll show you some fun. And I say!"

"Well?" asked Ruth.

"How often are they going to send you boxes from home?"

"Boxes from home?" repeated the girl from the Red Mill.

"Yes. You know, you can have 'em sent often if you keep up with your
classes and don't get too many demerits in deportment. I missed two
boxes last half because of black marks. And in French and deportment,
too. _That_ was Picolet's doing--mean thing!"

"I had no idea that one would be allowed to receive goodies," said
Ruth, who of course expected nothing of the kind from home, but did not
wish to say so.

"Well, you want to write your folks that you can receive 'em right
away. A girl who gets things from home can be very popular if she
wants to be. Ah! here's the custard."

Ruth had difficulty in keeping from laughing outright. She saw plainly
that the nearest way to Miss Jennie Stone's heart lay through her
stomach.

Meanwhile Helen had become acquainted with the girl on the other side
who had called them "Infants." But she was a good-natured girl, too,
and now Helen introduced her to her chum as Miss Polk. She was a
dark-haired, plain-faced girl and wore eye-glasses. She was a Junior
and already Helen had found she belonged to the F. C.'s.

"I guess most of the stiff and starched ones belong to that Forward
Club," whispered Helen to her chum. "But the jolly ones are Upedes."

"We'll wait and see," advised Ruth.

Supper was over then and the girls all rose and strolled out of the
room in parties. Ruth and Helen made their way quietly to the exit and
looked for the office of the Preceptress. The large building with the
tower--the original Briarwood Hall--was partly given up to recitations
and lecture rooms and partly to the uses of the Tellinghams and the
teachers. Besides this g