n. Meanwhile, the girls were each urged to
think up some new way of earning money, and as a committee of the whole to
try to invent a novel scheme of including the whole school in a plan
whereby much money might be raised.
"How we're to do it, nobody knows," said Helen gloomily, walking along
beside Ruth after the meeting. "I expected _you_ would have just the thing
to suggest."
"I wish I had," her chum returned thoughtfully.
"Mercy says, 'Great oaks from little acorns grow'----"
They turned into the hall and saw that the mail had been distributed. Ruth
was handed a letter with Mr. Hammond's name upon it. She had almost
forgotten the moving picture man and her own scenario, in these three or
four very busy days.
Ruth eagerly tore the envelope open. A green slip of paper fluttered out.
It was a check for twenty-five dollars from the Alectrion Film
Corporation. With it was a note highly praising Ruth's first effort at
scenario writing for moving pictures.
"What is it?" demanded Helen. "You look so funny. There's no--nobody
dead?"
"Do I look like that?" asked Ruth. "Far from it! Just look at these,
dear," and she thrust both the note and the check into Helen's hands. "I
believe I've struck it!"
"Struck what?" demanded her puzzled chum.
"'Great oaks from little acorns grow' sure enough! Eureka! I have it,"
Ruth cried. "I believe I know how we all--every girl in Briarwood--can
help earn the money to rebuild the West Dormitory."
CHAPTER XIII
THE IDEA IS BORN
"What? What? _What_?" Helen cried, as she gazed, wide-eyed, at the check
and at Mr. Hammond's letter.
The check for twenty-five dollars there could be no mistake about; and she
scanned the moving picture man's enthusiastic letter shortly, for it was
brief. But Helen quite misunderstood the well-spring of Ruth's sudden joy.
"Oh, Ruthie Fielding!" she gasped. "What have you done now?" and she
hugged her chum delightedly. "How wonderful! _That_ was the secret between
you and that Mr. Hammond, was i
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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.