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was a temporary suffering of Betty's work
during the basketball season and her being more
or less nervous and under a strain. Then, as
Mrs. Lee watched several games, she saw the
possibility of accident in the fast playing, and
as Betty thought, the small injury was the final
argument.

But this curtailment left Betty more free for
other lines of work and her time was too full
for many regrets. It was rather pleasant, to
be sure, to have certain girls exclaim, over her
defection and prophesy dire results to the team.
And Betty was big enough at heart to be
honestly glad when the juniors under Mathilde
played well, winning over all the classes except
the seniors. There at last came their Water-
loo. For the seniors had previous defeat to
wipe out. They had the best team that they
had ever had in basketball. The girls of that
class had never been particularly noted in athle-
tic lines, but as Kathryn declared, they had con-
centrated on basketball "to beat us." And beat
the juniors they did.

The school paper came out with big headlines
over the result. The seniors chortled. Chet at
first avoided any comment when with Betty,
but his eyes twinkled when she congratulated
him as a member of the class. "The girls have

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