ription and
to read it aloud for general approval. None were universally approved,
but Rhoda's received the largest number of votes, as being simple yet
comprehensive:--

"This tablet is erected to the memory of Thomasina Bolderston, the most
popular `Head Girl' whom Hurst Manor has ever known. Her companions
affectionately record the kindly justice of her rule, and the unfailing
cheerfulness which was a stimulus to them in work and play."

"Yes--it's the best, decidedly the best, but I should like it to have
been better still!" said Kathleen thoughtfully. "It is so difficult to
describe Tom in three or four lines."

"And it leaves so much unsaid! I should like to describe her a little
bit so that future pupils might know what she was like. If they read
that, they would imagine her just like anyone else," objected Bertha,
frowning. "I suppose it wouldn't do to say something about her--
er--`_engaging ugliness_!' or some expression like that?"

Howls of indignation greeted this audacious proposition, and Bertha was
alternately snubbed, reproached, and abused, until she grew sulky and
retired from the discussion. Rhoda herself came to the rescue, and with
the critical spirit of the true artist acknowledged the defect in her
own work.

"Bertha is right! What I have written gives no idea of Tom herself.
It's a pity, but I don't see how it can be helped. What words could
describe Tom to anyone who had not seen her? Now, here's another idea!
Why not make a rule that every girl who has had her name inscribed on
the Record Wall must present a framed portrait to the school? All the
frames would be alike, and they would be hung in rows in the Great Hall,
so that future generations of pupils might be able to see what the girls
were like, and feel more friendly towards them!"

"Rhoda! What a h-eavenly idea!" cried Irene rapturously. "How s-imply
lovely! Why in the world have we never thought of that before?"

"I never heard of anything so splendid!" cried the girls in chorus,
while Rhoda sat beaming with gratified smiles. Well, if her own name
would never be printed in that roll of honour, at least she had composed
the inscription of one of the most important tablets, and had suggested
a new idea which bade fair to be as much appreciated as the Wall itself!
Already the girls were debating eagerly together as to its
inauguration, and deciding that the different "Heads" should be deputed
to write to those old m