face sometimes; but some nice girls do, and the
freshmen have to try everything, you know. We
can trust Doris to have a little sense, I suppose.”

“I'm not so sure,” smiled Mrs. Lee. “Doris
is getting a little heady of late. Keep an eye
on her at school, Betty. Doris is a lovely child
and I want her to have helpful companions, not
the kind that _she_ has to _help.”_

Betty laughed at that and went on to tell her
mother about Grandmother Ferris and the dolls
and how good Mr. Murchison was to her. “That
is something that I thought Father would like
to know about the head of the firm,” finished
Betty.

Perhaps it was because Betty had in mind
her mother's injunction that she happened to
see Doris and Stacia in one of the halls at
school as she passed from one class to another.

Doris, seeing Betty, hastened to turn her face
in another direction and stepped behind Stacia.
But Betty had already seen that the bright and
attractive face of her younger sister was just
a little too bright, with a stain of color high
on her cheeks and a red on her lips that could
only be from lipstick.

“Silly little piece!” thought Betty. “She's
trying to ape Stacia!” And at home that after-
noon, she remarked to Doris, “Someone couldn't

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