Produced by Suzanne Shell, Jacqueline Jeremy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net A Patriotic Schoolgirl BLACKIE & SON LIMITED 50 Old Bailey, LONDON 17 Stanhope Street, GLASGOW BLACKIE & SON (INDIA) LIMITED Warwick House, Fort Street, BOMBAY BLACKIE & SON (CANADA) LIMITED 1118 Bay Street, TORONTO A Patriotic Schoolgirl BY ANGELA BRAZIL Author of "Schoolgirl Kitty" "The Luckiest Girl in the School" "Monitress Merle" &c. &c. _Illustrated by Balliol Salmon_ BLACKIE & SON LIMITED LONDON AND GLASGOW Contents CHAP. Page I. OFF TO BOARDING-SCHOOL 9 II. BRACKENFIELD COLLEGE 23 III. THE TALENTS TOURNAMENT 32 IV. EXEATS 45 V. AUTOGRAPHS 58 VI. TROUBLE 67 VII. DORMITORY NO. 9 79 VIII. A SENSATION 91 IX. ST. ETHELBERTA'S 98 X. THE RED CROSS HOSPITAL 106 XI. A STOLEN MEETING 119 XII. THE SCHOOL UNION 129 XIII. THE SPRING TERM 140 XIV. THE SECRET SOCIETY OF PATRIOTS 151 XV. THE EMPRESS 163 XVI. THE OBSERVATORY WINDOW 175 XVII. THE DANCE OF THE NATIONS 183 XVIII. ENCHANTED GROUND 195 XIX. A POTATO WALK 208 XX. PATRIOTIC GARDENING 222 XXI. THE ROLL OF HONOUR 231 XXII. THE MAGIC LANTERN 244 XXIII. ON LEAVE 255 XXIV. THE ROYAL GEORGE 264 XXV. CHARADES 276 Illustrations Facing Page "IF YOU WANT THE EUSTON EXPRESS, YOU'LL HAVE TO MAKE A RUN FOR IT" _Frontispiece_ THEY WERE HUDDLED TOGETHER, WATCHING HER WITH AWESTRUCK FACES 96 THEN SOMEHOW MARJORIE FOUND HERSELF BLURTING OUT THE ENTIRE STORY 168 SHE STARED AT IT IN CONSTERNATION 280 A Patriotic Schoolgirl CHAPTER I Off to Boarding-school