spot.' Miss Hogarth called afterwards, but the
Sevillas, who were the other people, very proud
and not asking for any help, had moved; and
the Woods lady did not know where they had
gone.”

At this Betty had a pang. Suppose they
_were_ connected with Ramon -- and she had
neither gone to ask them nor written to him!
That was the way a body perhaps missed a
big opportunity.

But Lilian was still speaking. “I think, girls,
that we should be very careful, too, about what
we say about our family. They are like us in
wanting to be independent and because they
haven't the good luck we have, there is no need
of rubbing it in by telling everybody about them
or what we do. Let's have a little sympathy
and delicacy!

“And now I'll tell about the dolls. As you
know, we bought some just alike and passed
them around to be dressed, each girl paying,
however, for her own doll. But then we had the
membership drive and a lot of new members
and we decided, that is, the committee did, that
everybody could select her own doll. And _these_
are not to be sent out with baskets, girls. They
are to be for the Toy Show that we are going
to have at the 'Y', and sold. There is to be a

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