150

XIV. Ruth Resigns the Premiership 171

XV. The Scholarship: Trouble Is Brewing 177

XVI. Kathleen Takes Ruth to Town 192

XVII. Miss Katie O'Flynn and Her Niece 204

XVIII. Susy Hopkins Persuades Aunt Church 220

XIX. Ruth's Troubles and Susy's Preparations 230

XX. The Governors of the School Examine Ruth 242

XXI. The Society Meets at Mrs. Church's Cottage 253

XXII. Ruth's Hard Choice: She Consults Her Grandfather 263

XXIII. Ruth Will Not Betray Kathleen 275

XXIV. Kathleen and Grandfather Craven 281

XXV. Kathleen Has a Good Time in London 294

XXVI. The Right Side of the Ledger 308

XXVII. After the Fun Comes the Deluge 314

XXVIII. Who Was the Ringleader? 321

XXIX. End of the Great Rebellion 334

THE REBEL OF THE SCHOOL

CHAPTER I.

SENT TO COVENTRY!

The school was situated in the suburbs of the popular town of
Merrifield, and was known as the Great Shirley School. It had been
endowed some hundred years ago by a rich and eccentric individual who
bore the name of Charles Shirley, but was now managed by a Board of
Governors. By the express order of the founder, the governors were
women; and very admirably did they fulfil their trust. There was no
recent improvement in education, no better methods, no sanitary
requirements which were not introduced into the Great Shirley School.
The number of pupils was limited to four hundred, one hundred of which
were foundationers and were not required to pay any fees; the remaining
three hundred paid small fees in order to be allowed to secure an
admirable and up-to-date education under the auspices of the great
school.

There came a day in early autumn, shortly after the girls had
reassembled after their summer vacation, when they streamed out of the
building in groups of twenties and thirties and forties. They stood
about and talked as girls will.

The Great Shirley School, well as it was managed, had perhaps a larger
share than many schools of those temptations which make school a
world--a world for the training either for good or evil of those who go
to it. There we