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dark brown hair which he wore in the prevailing
style back from his forehead. Betty was rather
impressed by his courteous manners, though
Carolyn did not fancy him and said that he
was too sure of himself. But he was a good
student and Betty found herself defending him
to several of the girls who were a little critical
after a time. But perhaps that was because he
made no effort to be friendly. Betty did not
know. The boy with whom he seemed to chum
was "wild," Mary Emma Howland said.

Lucia, in telling how she came to know him,
said that his mother used to be a friend of her
mother's at school. "They are being invited
everywhere," said Lucia," and Jack is, too.
They live in a hotel now, but are moving soon
into one of those fine houses that are being
finished."

From this Betty concluded that the Huxleys
moved in what was known as "society" and her
first social meeting with Jack was at a little
party at Lucia's, one quite "informal" and
hastily planned, Lucia said. There Jack paid
rather particular attention to Betty and after
that she met him so often at school, when he
would fall in beside her after class, or be at
the entrance of the grounds to accompany her

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