"Susan Hopkins. I used to be a Board School girl, but now I am on the foundation at Great Shirley. It is a big rise for me. Are you a poor girl? Are you on the foundation?" "I don't know what it means by being on the foundation, but I don't think I am poor. I think, on the contrary, that I am very rich. Did you ever hear of a girl who lived in a castle--a great beautiful castle--on the top of a high hill? If you ever did, I am that girl." "Oh, my!" said Susy Hopkins. "That does sound romantic." Her momentary dislike to Kathleen had vanished. The desire to go to the town on a message for her mother had completely left her. She stood still, as though fascinated. "I live there," said Kathleen--"that is, I do when I am at home. I come from the land of the mountain and the stream; of the shamrock; of the deep, deep blue sea." "Ireland? Are you Irish?" said the girl. "I am proud to say that I am." "We don't think anything of the Irish here." "Oh, don't you?" "But don't be angry, please," continued Susy, "for I am sure you are very nice." "I am nice when I like. To-day I am nasty. I am wicked to-day--quite wicked; I could hate any one who opposes me. I want some one to help me; if some one will help me, I will be nice to that person. Will you?" "Oh, my word, yes! How handsome you look when you flash your eyes!" said Susy Hopkins. "Then I want to find that dear little girl, who is so beautiful that I love her and can't get her out of my head. I want to find Ruth Craven. She went away with a horrid, stiff, pokery girl called Cassandra Weldon. You have such strange names in your country. That horrid, prim Cassandra chose to correct me when I came into school, and she has taken my darling away--the only one I love in the whole of England. I want to find her. I will give you--- I will give you an Irish diamond set in a brooch if you will help me." This sounded a very grand offer indeed to Susy Hopkins, who lived in the most modest way, and had not a jewel of any sort in her possession. "I will help you. I will, and I can. I know where Miss Weldon lives. I can take you to her house." "But I want Ruth." "If she has taken Ruth home, she will be at Cassandra's house," said Susy. "And you can take me there?" "This blessed minute." "All right; come along." "When will you give me the diamond set in the brooch?" "It isn't a real diamond, you know. It is an Irish diamond set in silver--real silver. My old nurse had it made for me, and I wear it sometimes. I will bring it to you to school to-morrow." "Oh, thank you--thank you, Miss--I forgot your name." "O'Hara--Kathleen O'Hara." "O'Hara is rather a difficult name to say. May I call you Kathleen?" "Just as you please, Susan. It is more handy for me to say Susan than Hopkins. As long as I am in England I must consort, I see, with all kinds of people; and if you will make yourself useful to me, I will be good to you."