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inside the auditorium; so come and tell us how
it turned out -- like a nice girl!"

"Oh, but we're going to have tea afterwards,"
objected Peggy.

"Well, call us in time for that, like a dear!
I'm hard up for time."

"All right. It will take a while to call off
the ballots and tally up everything on the board.
I'll come when we've everybody else served.
You don't want to miss those cakes. Our cook
made some of them."

"My -- have I almost missed those?"

But Betty and Carolyn slipped out as soon as
their ballots had been handed to the girl that
collected them. In two seats near a window in
the auditorium they sat and read Cicero as fast
as possible, deciding to let the undecided points
go and cover ground at first, getting the vocabu-
lary looked up at least. "You aren't the least
bit excited over running for office, are you,
Betty?" asked Carolyn, stopping in the middle
of a sentence. They had to read sitting close
together and in a tone, not loud, but such as
would not be drowned out by the practicing
going on upon the platform. This was the mixed

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