Tellingham risked rebuilding the dormitory on the same scale as the
burned structure, because of Mr. Hammond's enthusiasm over Ruth's
achievement.

The days of early spring passed in swift procession now. It seemed that
the longer the days grew, the faster they seemed to go. There were not
hours enough in which to accomplish all that the girls, who looked toward
graduation in June, wished.

Even Jennie Stone worked harder and took her school tasks more seriously
than ever before.

"But, see here!" she said to her mates one day, "here's some 'hot ones'
Miss Brokaw has been handing the primes, and I believe they'd puzzle some
of us big girls. Listen! 'What is longitude?' Sue Mellen came to me,
puzzled, about _that_," chuckled Jennie, "and I told her longitude is
those lengthwise stripes on a watermelon."

"Oh, Heavy!" gasped Lluella. "How could you?"

"Didn't hurt me at all," proclaimed Jennie, calmly. "And I told her that a
'ski' is what a Russian has on the end of his name. That quite
satisfiedski Miss Mellenski, whether it does Miss Brokawski or not!"

Mrs. Tellingham gave the school a serious talk the day before the film
company arrived to take the first pictures for Ruth's play. She read and
explained that part of the scenario in which the Briarwood girls would
appear, and begged their serious co-operation with the director who would
have the making of the film in charge.

Ruth still shrank from seeing Mr. Grimes again; but she found that, while
engaged in the work of making these pictures, he behaved quite differently
from the way he had acted the day she had first seen him on the bank of
the Lumano river.

He was patient, but insistent. He knew just what effect he wanted and
always got it in the end. And Ruth and Helen told each other that, ugly as
he could be, Mr. Grimes was really a most wonderful director. They did not
wonder that Hazel Gray expressed her desire to work under Mr. Grimes,
harsh as he had been to her.

It was difficult for the girls--even for Ruth who had written the
scenario--to follow the trend of the story of "The Heart of a Schoolgirl"
by closely watching the taking of these scenes in and about Briarwood
Hall; for they were not taken in proper rotation.

Mr. Grimes had his schedule before him and he skipped from one part of the
story's action to another in a most bewildering way, getting the scenes
about the school filmed in each "setting" in succession, rather than
following the