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You girls can go on and freeze your noses and your toeses, if you like. Me for the steam-heated room and a box of bonbons. But I hope the girls who go will be nicer to you than some of those Upedes have been lately, Ruthie." Helen blushed now; but Ruth hastened to say: "Oh, don't you fuss about me, Mercy. Some of the Sweetbriars mean to go. This isn't confined to one club in particular.
The morning breeze was fanning the rustling foliage; but the air, already warm, was loaded with the sweet perfumes of the ground-ivy, the honeysuckle, the woodruff, and the sweetbriars. The young gipsy opened her eyes with astonishment remembering, with surprise and delight, that the voice of Catherine would no more trouble her, calling, "Myrtle!
March!" The nine girls started through the hall and down the broad stairway in single file. Heavy began to cheer and the others chimed in: "'S.B. Ah-h-h! S.B. Ah-h-h! Sound our battle-cry Near and far! S.B. All! Briarwood Hall! Sweetbriars, do or die This be our battle-cry Briarwood Hall! That's All!"
Indeed, since the inception of the Sweetbriars a better spirit had come over the entire school. Mrs. Tellingham in secret spoke of this as the direct result of Ruth's character and influence; for although Ruth Fielding was not namby-pamby, she was opposed to every form of rude behavior, or to the breaking of rules which everyone knew to be important.
Sound our battle-cry Near and far! S.B. All! Briarwood Hall! Sweetbriars, do or die This be our battle-cry Briarwood Hall! That's all!" Mr. Cameron, Helen's father, and Mrs. Murchiston, who had acted as governess for the twins until they were old enough to go to boarding school, were motoring to Briarwood Hall for the graduation exercises.
The River of Knowledge its current dark Is the one wide river to cross! Sweetbriars all-l! One wide River of Knowledge! Sweetbriars all-l! One wide river to cross! "'Sweetbriars come here, one by one But one wide river to cross! There's lots of work, but plenty of fun, With one wide river to cross!" "Altogether!" cried Heavy. "All join in!" "The dear old chant!" said Helen, with a happy sigh.
'They can be met, nevertheless, said he, laughing, 'if you take one part of the subject and I the other and if you'll give me a pencil! We must be done in a quarter of an hour. 'There it is, said Wych Hazel, 'then you can take half of the rock' and she walked away to a position as far behind Mr. Rollo as sweetbriars and sumach would permit.
But the next day she got about in the room very nicely with the aid of two canes. The handsome ebony crutches she saved for "Sunday-Best." Ruth arranged a meeting of the Sweetbriars to welcome the cripple, and Mercy seemed really to enjoy having so many girls of her own age about her.
"Dear old Tom!" exclaimed Helen. "Nice of him to call us 'Sweetbriars'; isn't it? I guess there's a good many thorns on this 'sweetbriar'; 'eh, Ruthie?" and she hugged and kissed her chum with sudden fierceness. "And Tom says he can get permission to come over and see me some Saturday afternoon if Mrs. Tellingham will allow it.
Neither of them will feel so badly, then, because they are in the lower classes." "We'll get the Sweetbriars to make her feel at home," said Ruth, to her chum. "No hazing this term, girlie! Let's welcome the newcomers like friends and sisters." "Sure, my dear," agreed Helen. "We haven't forgotten what they did to us, when we first landed at Briarwood Hall."