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FOR THE SCHOOL COLOURS

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By ANGELA BRAZIL

    "Angela Brazil has proved her undoubted talent for writing a story of
    schoolgirls for other schoolgirls to read."--Bookman.

    The School in the South.
    Monitress Merle.
    Loyal to the School.
    A Fortunate Term.
    A Popular Schoolgirl.
    The Princess of the School.
    A Harum-Scarum Schoolgirl.
    The Head Girl at the Gables.
    A Patriotic Schoolgirl.
    For the School Colours.
    The Madcap of the School.
    The Luckiest Girl in the School.
    The Jolliest Term on Record.
    The Girls of St. Cyprian's.
    The Youngest Girl in the Fifth.
    The New Girl at St. Chad's.
    For the Sake of the School.
    The School by the Sea.
    The Leader of the Lower School.
    A Pair of Schoolgirls.
    A Fourth Form Friendship.
    The Manor House School.
    The Nicest Girl in the School.
    The Third Class at Miss Kaye's.
    The Fortunes of Philippa.

    LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, LTD., 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.

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[Illustration: "WHAT'S THIS? WHAT HAVE THEY SENT ME?" SHE GASPED
_page 199_]


FOR THE SCHOOL COLOURS

by

ANGELA BRAZIL

Author of "A Patriotic Schoolgirl"
"The Luckiest Girl in the School"
"The Madcap of the School"
&c. &c.

Illustrated by Balliol Salmon







Blackie and Son Limited
London Glasgow and Bombay

Printed and bound in Great Britain




Contents


     CHAP.                                   Page

        I. ENTER AVELYN                         9

       II. AN INVASION                         22

      III. WALDEN                              37

       IV. AN ENCOUNTER                        51

        V. RUCTIONS                            65

       VI. REPRISALS                           79

      VII. MISS HOPKINS                        94

     VIII. SPRING-HEELED JACK                 104

       IX. CONCERNS DAY GIRLS                 120

        X. MISCHIEF                           131

       XI. MOSS COTTAGE                       145

      XII. "LADY TRACY'S AT HOME"             158

     XIII. REPORTS                            168

      XIV. WAR WORK                           178

       XV. THE SCHOOL BIRTHDAY                193

      XVI. UNDER THE PINES                    204

     XVII. THE LAVENDER LADY                  214

    XVIII. THE LOYAL SCHOOL LEAGUE            227

      XIX. THE SURPRISE TREE                  240

       XX. PAMELA'S SECRET                    254

      XXI. PAMELA'S NIGHT WALK                266

     XXII. THE LECTURE HALL IS DEDICATED      277




Illustrations


                                                                     Page

    "WHAT'S THIS? WHAT HAVE THEY SENT ME?" SHE GASPED      _Frontispiece_

    "DO YOU KNOW THIS WOOD'S PRIVATE PROPERTY?" HE SHOUTED             56

    AVELYN, CROUCHED UNDER THE MANGER, COULD HEAR THE BULLYING
      TONE IN HIS VOICE                                               152

    AN INTERVIEW WITH MISS THOMPSON                                   176

    AVELYN AND THE LAVENDER LADY                                      224

    WHO COULD SAY HOW MUCH MIGHT DEPEND ON THEIR SPEED?               272




FOR THE SCHOOL COLOURS

CHAPTER I

Enter Avelyn


"It's the limit!" exploded Laura.

"An atrocious shame!" agreed Janet.

"Gives me nerve shock!" mourned Ethelberga gloomily.

"You see," continued Laura, popping the tray of her box on to the floor
and sitting down on her bed, so as the better to address her
audience--"you see, it's been plumped upon us without any warning. Miss
Thompson must have arranged it long ago, but she never let out so much
as a teeny-weeny hint. If I'd known before I came back I'd have asked
Father to give