on bringing one of the
teachers to the door with the severe injunction, "Young ladies please
contain yourselves. There is too much noise here."

The girls dispersed by twos and threes, until Marian Barber and the chums
were the only ones left.

"I have a motto," said Marian, "that I shall bring here to-morrow and hang
in the locker-room. If I had paid more attention to it it would have been
better for me."

"What is it, Marian?" asked Jessica.

"Wait and see," replied Marian. "Oh, it's a good one, and appropriate,
too."

After saying good-bye to Marian the four chums walked on together.

"Are you happy, Anne, dear?" said Grace, slipping her hand into Anne's.

Anne looked up at Grace with a smile so full of love and gratitude that
Grace felt well repaid for all she had endured for friendship's sake.

"Everything has turned out just like the last chapter in a book," sighed
Nora with satisfaction "The sinner--that's Julia Crosby--has repented, and
the truly good people--Anne and Grace--have triumphed and will live happy
forever after."

The girls laughed at Nora's remark.

"Now I can go on planning for our big game without being afraid that the
girls will stay away from practice and do things to annoy and make it hard
for me," said Grace happily. "I know that we shall win. I feel so full of
enthusiasm I don't know what to do. Oh, girls, I forgot to tell you that
Julia Crosby and I have a perfectly splendid plan. But I promised not to
say anything to anyone about it until she comes back to school."

"How funny it sounds to hear you talk about having plans with Julia
Crosby," said Jessica laughing. "You will make Miriam Nesbit jealous if
you take Julia away from her."

"By the way, girls!" exclaimed Nora, "what became of Miriam? I saw her
enter the locker-room, but she wasn't there when Marian Barber began her
speech. I know she did not remain, because I looked for her and couldn't
find her."

"I saw her go," said Grace quietly, "That is the only part of this story
that doesn't end well. She doesn't like Anne or me any better than before
and never will, I'm afraid. She influenced the girls against us, after the
first game, and you remember what she said at the basketball meeting,
don't you, Nora?"

"Yes," responded Nora, "I do, and if she hadn't been David's sister I
would have told her a few plain truths, then and there."

"I said at the beginning of the year that I believed Miriam had a better
self," sai