keenly interested, while the agitation of the two dormitories
actively engaged was raised to fever-pitch. Some of the smaller girls
in the Pink Dormitory had been occupied during the past week in
manufacturing rosettes of pink ribbon, which they sold for twopence
apiece to the members of the team and the partisans of the dormitory--a
proceeding which promised considerable profit at first to the
enterprising trio who originated it. Unfortunately for them, however,
Muriel Paget descended upon them on the morning of the match with
searching inquiries as to the monetary part of the transaction.

"But, Muriel, the ribbon cost us an awful lot of money," protested one
of the small profiteers in distress, when the head girl ordered that
all proceeds from the sale of the favours should be deposited in the
dormitory missionary-box. "It was very good ribbon, penny-halfpenny a
yard, and we've used yards and yards of it!"

"Well, you may keep back enough money to pay expenses," conceded the
head girl. "Reckon out exactly how many yards of ribbon you've bought
and how many favours you've sold, and then bring the balance of the
money to me to be put into the missionary-box. And please remember for
the future that you're English schoolgirls--not beastly little Jews."

With which parting remark she stalked off with much magisterial
dignity, leaving three very crushed small girls behind her.

However, the three had the consolation of regaining the money they had
outlaid upon their project, and also of having started a very popular
scheme. The idea of the favours caught on. The members of the Green
Dormitory were immediately bitten with the desire to sport green
rosettes, and drawers were ransacked, and finally permission obtained
for a messenger to be sent into the town to purchase a sufficiency of
green ribbon to manufacture favours for the rival team and its
supporters. Before the morning was over nearly every girl in the
school sported a favour of one colour or the other. Pink favours
predominated, partly because of the start obtained by the early
venders, and partly because the Pink Dormitory was Muriel's dormitory.
The head girl was far and away the most popular person in the school,
far out-rivalling Alice Metcalfe, the Green Dormitory's captain, in the
girls' affections. Still, the Greens had quite a fair show of
ribbons--enough at any rate to make a good "shout" for their side when
the match should begin.

Gerry Wi