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girls, though he liked Betty, Kathryn said that
since Chet fancied Betty, Chauncey would "let
it go at that."

In regard to Ramon Balinsky, whom Peggy
had once thought so intriguing as a football
hero, Betty was grateful to her father when he
said that he would write himself, since "the boy
might need a friend." "Perhaps he has some
new trouble," said Mr. Lee that night before
dinner, when Betty caught him alone and asked
what she should write. "Write a short friendly
note, Betty, and I'll say the rest."

Before the church supper, then, much as Betty
needed the time on lessons, she spoiled several
sheets of good note paper in the process of get-
ting the appropriate thing said. The note was
written and pronounced a "friendly, modest
little effort," by the censor-in-chief. Betty then
dismissed the matter from her mind, though
occasionally thinking of Ramon's expression,
"Golden Betty," when as girls do, she spent
some time in arranging her golden locks ac-
cording to the most becoming of the approved
high school styles. One had to look well in
Lyon High!

But as Betty said sometimes to Kathryn or
Carolyn, whenever she was in danger of being
spoiled by thinking she could do well in ath-

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