ured Janet Steele, her full pink cheeks actua

ess Morse said practicall

n't k

ky-faced Lily Pendleton. Jess immedi

teele, Lil. You've got to treat her nicely. If you don't," she added sharply, "you'll never get a chance to go ca

since the time Jess mentioned, and the latter's

ow cranky Hessie is when she does get mad. But Laura has suggested a perfectly splendid idea. Miss

, and where, at this time of year, he was often busy sharpening skates. Laura found a pair of skates for the Red Cross girl, and for an hour the latter

"We'll push you through the figures. Jess and I will be on either side of you, except when we pair off with the boy

parated from Janet, "Chet mustn't be too nice to

r laughing chum, "don't d

r Grimes had been forbidden to take part in the carnival by Gee Gee troubled the girls of Central High less than they might have been troubled

to be catered to by her schoolmates. With such rather shallow schoolmates as Lily Pendleton, Hester

a tremendously healthy one--strong, well developed, and tomboyish in her activities. Yet she lacked magnetism and the

e. And because Laura Belding was a natural leader and was very popular in the school, Hester disliked her and showed in every wa

summer had started Lily in the right direction, and although the overdressed girl had still some weak

opic of conversation when the girls gathered in the boathouse rooms to prepare for the races and the

y Hargrew sepulchrally, coming into the dr

sked Jes

ly. "She told me she w

pursed lips. "She is going to be

gentle daughter made such a statement she had to be ful

said. "I wonder if Miss Carri

ss?" cried D

ake thinking up mean

" murmur

exclaimed the

If she hears yo

utin,' as the fellow said," chuckled B

hed Jess. "I do hope ever

ra said with satisfaction. "I believe we shal

, girls! It's first the fancy skatin

. The latter had been shaved and smoothed over every gnarly place. There was not a single crack in which a skate

n the ice upon which the spectators could stand. Uprights held the strings of colored lights which were supplied with electr

pay a half dollar for a ticket, was a guarded space so that those who d

rena. Then the ropes were taken down at one end and the long-distance races came off, a mile track

and it was an intensely cold night The ringing of the skates on the almost adamantin

s," Janet Steele murmured to Laura Be

ht procession. The boys arranged this th

hed into the arena from the boys' lane to the dressing-rooms a long line of figures in dominos,

s was well nigh bewildering; while the intermingling of colored lights, their weaving in a

ossed from hand to hand, as Indian clubs are tossed in gymnasium exercises. The ef

e and elaborate as though it were a ball they were attending. There was no dress as simple as Janet Steele's Red Cross u

rance on the ice. She had learned, too, her part quite perfectly. When the girls first came out and the boys darted back to get in

It really was a most attractive grand march, and there chanced, better still, to be no accident. Smoothly the young people wended their way abo

wood is, Henry. And it is so near Christmas! I hope that bank-note will turn o

ler. "I'll go to see Monroe t