Her daughter, Mrs. Eustice, is the principal now.

Mrs. Eustice was beginning to worry about you.

"I wanted to bring three wardrobe trunks, but mother thought Mrs. Eustice might make a fuss.

"Mother said Mrs. Eustice never allowed the girls to dress much.

Mrs. Eustice, the principal, had a theory that girls did not get out into the fresh air often enough.

"Mrs. Eustice will speak to you in the assembly hall this afternoon," said Miss Anderson.

When they came out from luncheon a notice was posted that Mrs. Eustice would address the school at two o'clock in the assembly hall in the main building.

I want to hear Mrs. Eustice; they say she is a direct descendant of Richard Carvel.

" Promptly at two o'clock, white-haired Mrs. Eustice mounted the platform and tapped a little bell for silence.

Mrs. Eustice's gown was of black or very dark blue silk, made simply and fitting exquisitely.

"I am so glad to welcome you, my girls," began Mrs. Eustice.

" A soft clapping of hands followed this speech, and Mrs. Eustice stepped down from the platform to be instantly surrounded by the girls who had spent other terms at the school.

They were presented by their corridor teachers, who seemed to possess a special faculty to remember names, and here and there Mrs. Eustice recognized a girl through the association of ideas.

Mrs. Eustice put out her hand to Ada, then gazed down at her in evident astonishment.

" Mrs. Eustice gazed at the soft little hand she held for a few moments, then released it.

"Indeed she did," assented Mrs. Eustice warmly.

Mrs. Eustice must have spoken to Miss Lacey, because she told the girls they would have to send all the trunks home except one apiece.

" "What was it Mrs. Eustice said about her?" questioned Betty with interest.

Ever since I heard Mrs. Eustice talk I feel that I know what makes her school really successful.

The appointments with Mrs. Eustice materialized, and Betty, after her interview, was conscious of a sincere affection for the woman who seemed to understand girls so thoroughly.

Mrs. Eustice, rather peculiarly some people thoughtAda

However, this is Mrs. Eustice's pet scheme, they tell me, and I want to stand well with her.

"Mrs. Eustice canceled her Edentown permit.

"Here are Norma and Alice, the kind of girls Mrs. Eustice is proud to have represent the school, and they can't afford to take a full course and graduate.

She insisted that Bob must come in with her, and they told their story to Mrs. Eustice, breathlessly and disconnectedly, to be sure, but the rope of emeralds and the gleaming diamonds filled in all gaps in the narrative.