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teresting to take. Yet there was always her
violin to practice. She wanted to be a member
of the "senior orchestra" next year as well as
in the senior class, and that you won by ability,
not by rank.

Of Jack Huxley she saw little. He was
courteous enough to speak when they met and
if they were unavoidably in a junior group to-
gether he was as friendly to Betty as to any
one. But there was no waiting after school to
see her. There were no invitations. And other
matters occupied Betty's thoughts.

"I don't want to be inquisitive, or curious,
Carolyn," said Peggy Pollard one day to Caro-
lyn Gwynne, "but don't you imagine there must
have been something in all that gossip about
Jack Huxley's party? I notice Betty and he
haven't been together any since. Did Betty ever
tell you anything? Or isn't it any of my affair?"

"Betty's never said anything much about the
party to me, Peggy, only that it was a big one
and they had it all very 'spuzzy' there, dinner
with lots of courses and everything. I really
can't remember what she did say. And was it
after that Jack stopped being with Betty? He's
been around with Mathilde some, I know; but I
thought it was because old diet has been rush-
ing Betty a lot. She was in that pretty Holland

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