s the use of so much formality among team-mates?"

Being merely a very human young girl, Marjorie could not help feeling a
little bit pleased with herself. She was glad she had played so well.
She felt that she had really begun to like her new associates very much.
Even Mignon must have her good points; and how wonderfully well she
played basketball! Perhaps Constance Stevens had been just a little bit
at fault. Certainly she had acted very queerly after that first day when
they had pledged their friendship. Had she, Marjorie, been wise to avow
unswerving loyalty to a stranger, and all because she looked like Mary
Raymond? Marjorie's disquieting reflections were interrupted by
something the French girl was saying.

"It was too funny for anything, wasn't it, Muriel?" Mignon laughed with
gleeful malice.

"Yes," nodded Muriel. "We gave the sophomores a bad scare."

"What did you do?" asked Irma Linton, curiously.

Seeing that she had the attention of her audience, the French girl
began.

"You remember the practice game we played against the sophomores last
week? According to my way of thinking, the sophomores played a very
rough game. I complained to Miss Seymour, their captain. She laughed at
me," Mignon scowled at the remembrance, "so I decided to teach her a
lesson."

"I told Muriel about it, and between us we made up a dialogue. It was
all about the sophomores' unfair playing, and how surprised they would
be when they found themselves forbidden to play basketball. Then we
managed to walk out of school behind two girls that always tell
everything they know, and recited our dialogue. The next morning Muriel
saw one of the girls talking to Miss Seymour for all she was worth, so
we know that she faithfully repeated everything she heard. Miss Seymour
wouldn't dare go to Miss Archer with it for fear Miss Archer would ask
too many questions. You know Miss Archer said last year when Inez
Chester made such a fuss about her sprained wrist that if ever again one
team reported another for rough playing she would disband the accused
team and have Miss Randall select a new one. So I imagine we gave our
friends the sophs something to think about."

"But who told you the sophomores would be forbidden to play?" demanded
candid Jerry.

"No one told us, silly," retorted Muriel, her color rising. "We simply
said they would be surprised when they found themselves forbidden to
play. 'When' may mean next week or next month, or nex