Produced by Suzanne Shell, Casey Peel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net A HARUM-SCARUM SCHOOLGIRL [Illustration: "COULD YOU DO ME A KINDNESS, MISS?" SHE ASKED _Page 252_] A HARUM-SCARUM SCHOOLGIRL BY ANGELA BRAZIL _Illustrated by John Campbell_ NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS _Copyright, 1920, by_ FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY _All rights reserved_ Contents CHAP. Page I. A PIXIE GIRL 9 II. STARS AND STRIPES 23 III. A PENNILESS PRINCESS 39 IV. THE RUSH-BEARING 51 V. DIANA DARES 65 VI. FRENCH LEAVE 77 VII. LAND GIRLS 91 VIII. ARMISTICE DAY 108 IX. DIANA'S ENGLISH CHRISTMAS 128 X. A FIT OF THE BLUES 141 XI. DIANA TO THE RESCUE 153 XII. DIANA BREAKS OUT 167 XIII. CRUSOE ISLAND 178 XIV. SPOOKS 195 XV. JOY-RIDING 207 XVI. A FAMILY CREST 219 XVII. THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER 235 XVIII. DIANA'S FOUNDLING 247 XIX. AMBITIONS 259 XX. A TANGLED PLOT 271 Illustrations Page "COULD YOU DO ME A KINDNESS, MISS?" SHE ASKED _Frontispiece_ "O-O-O-OH! HOW GORGEOUS TO BELONG TO A HIGH-FALUTING FAMILY THAT'S GOT LEGENDS AND GHOSTS!" 48 TWO PAIRS OF BARE FEET WENT SPLASHING JOYOUSLY INTO THE BROOK 72 WE SET OFF AND RODE ALL THE MORNING 144 ITS COWL FELL BACK, AND DISCLOSED A WELL-KNOWN AND DECIDEDLY MIRTHFUL COUNTENANCE 200 DIANA CALLED AND SHOUTED TO THEM. THEY TOOK NO NOTICE 240 A HARUM-SCARUM SCHOOLGIRL CHAPTER I A Pixie Girl "If I'd known!" groaned Winifred Cranston, otherwise Wendy, with a note of utter tragedy in her usually cheerful voice. "If I'd only known! D'you think I'd have come trotting back here with my baggage? Not a bit of it! Nothing in this wide world should have dragged me. I'd have turned up my hair--yes, it's _quite_ long enough to turn up, Jess Paget, so you needn't look at it so scornfully; it's as nice as yours, and nicer! Well, I tell you I'd have turned up my hair, and run away and joined the 'Waacs' or the 'Wrens', or have driven a motor wagon or conducted a tramcar, or scrubbed floors at a hospital, or done anything--_anything_, I say!--rather than stay at the Abbey without Mrs. Gifford."