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joicing as captain of the champion team. There
was every indication that Betty again would be
captain of the junior basketball team, but there
were some murmurs at home against this and an-
other junior girl wanted the place. Betty loved
the excitement and confessed to herself alone
that she would like to be captain. In the spring
she was going to take up riding if she could.

Life was a happy proposition for Betty Lee
this year. At home she had less responsibility.
Her father's business relations were apparently
solid. Amy Lou had started to school. Doris
and Dick were freshmen in Lyon High this year.
Betty often met them in the halls, when they
would exchange salutes; but Doris particularly
wanted no interference from her older sister
and Betty respected her desire for independ-
ence. She had been of some help to them at the
start, however, and Doris was secretly quite
proud of her pretty junior sister that "every-
body" knew for her athletic record and "every-
thing."

Recitation periods were necessarily shortened
on account of the Pep Assembly, which made the
schedule a more hurried one. Betty ran down-
stairs and hopped upstairs, as she went from

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