me as she is, poor creature, could never make a pleasant appearance
upon the platform?"

"I do not know," Ruth said seriously. "Not now. But I shall think it out,
if nobody else _can_. Mercy shall graduate with flying colors from
Briarwood Hall, whether I do myself, or not!"

"Never mind," said Helen, laughing at her chum's emphasis. "At least the
valedictorian will hail from this dear old quartette room."

"Yes," agreed Ruth, looking around the loved chamber with a tender smile.
"What will we do when we see it no longer, Helen?"

"Oh, don't talk about it!" cried Helen, who had forgotten by this time
what she had started to question Ruth about. "Come on! We'll be late for
supper."

When her chum's back was turned, Ruth slipped out of her table drawer the
very packet of papers Helen had spoken about. The sheets had been
typewritten and were now sealed in a manila envelope, which was addressed
and stamped.

She hesitated all day about dropping the packet in the mailbag; but now
she took her courage in both hands and determined to send it to its
destination.




CHAPTER VIII

A NEW STAR


Ruth had actually been trying her "prentice hand," as Mr. Hammond had
called it, at the production of a moving picture scenario. It was the
first literary work she had ever achieved, although her taste in that
direction had been noted by Mrs. Tellingham and the under-instructors of
the school.

Oh! she would not have had any of them know what she had done in secret
since arriving at the Hall at the beginning of this term. She would not
let even Helen know about it.

"If it is a success--if Mr. Hammond produces it--_then_ I'll tell them,"
Ruth said to herself. "But if he tells me it is no good, then nobody shall
ever know that I was so foolish as to attempt such a thing."

Even after she had it all ready she hesitated some hours as to whether or
not she should send it to the address Mr. Hammond had given her. The
pamphlet he had promised to send her had not arrived, and Ruth had litt

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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain.

John Middleton Murry (August 6, 1889 March 12, 1957) was an English writer. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married, as her second husband, in 1918. Following her death, he edited her work. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, along with the writer Joyce Cary, a lifelong friend.

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