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membership drive was inaugurated and went
over well. The girls were interested in the
doll dressing and when Lucia invited the en-
tire group to meet at "her house" one Satur-
day afternoon, there were several more mem-
bers at once. Mathilde Finn and "her crowd,"
as Carolyn put it, joined at once.

"Finny," said Dotty Bradshaw, "will not be
much good to us, I'm afraid."

"Oh, yes she will," answered Selma Rardon.
"She'll copy Lucia, and it will do _her_ good to
be in it, Finny, I mean."

"It does all of us good, Selma," said the
young president, "and I think it is wonderful
of Lucia to think of the very thing she can
do to help us most right now."

In consequence of this plan, two weeks be-
fore Christmas or about that time, Betty found
herself going home with Lucia on Friday after-
noon. Her father had delivered her at school
that morning with her overnight bag, which
reposed in her locker all day. The Murchison
car was waiting at the curb when the girls left
the school grounds and Betty tried hard not to
feel any importance as she entered it. It was
rather pleasant to have Lucia choose her from
all of her friends for the week-end. But she had
been the first friend, after all.


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