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hurled herself upon her friend. "To think we're going to the same school!" "Well, Frances is going, too," said Bobby practically. "She might like to be introduced, you know. Betty, this is Frances Martin, a Vermont girl who is out after all the Latin prizes." Frances smiled a slow, sweet smile, and, behind thick glasses, her dark near-sighted eyes said that she was very glad to know Betty Gordon. "Now the boys!" announced the irrepressible Bobby, apparently taking Bob's introduction to Frances for granted. "The boys will please line up and I'll indicate them." The five lads obediently came forward and ranged themselves in a row. "From left to right," chanted Bobby, "we have the Tucker twins, Tommy and Teddy, W. M. Brown, who asks his friends to use his initials and punches those who refuse, Timothy Derby who reads poetry and Sydney Cooke who ought to--" and Bobby completed her speech with a wicked grin, for she had managed to hit several weaknesses. "As an introducer," she announced calmly to Carter, the personification of propriety's horror, "I think I do rather well." They stowed themselves into the limousine somehow, the girls settled more or less comfortably on the seats, the boys squeezed in between, hanging on the running board, and spilling over into Carter's domain. Bob liked the five boys at once, and they seemed to accept him as one of them. If he had had a little fear that he would feel diffident and unboyish among lads of his own age, it vanished at the first contact. "Betty, you sweet child, how we have missed you!" cried Mrs. Littell, standing on the lowest step under the porte-cochere as the car swept up the drive of Fairfields, as the Littell's home was called. Behind her waited Mr. Littell, fully recovered from the injury to his foot which had made him an invalid during Betty's previous visit. From Carter, who had beamingly greeted her at the station, to the pretty parlor maid who smiled as Betty entered her room to find her turning down the bed covers, there was not a servant who did not remember Betty and seem glad to see her. "It is so good to have you two here again," Mr. Littell had said. "I never knew such people," Betty repeated to herself twenty times that evening. "How lovely they are to Bob and me!" Mrs. Littell, who was happiest when entertaining young people, had put the six boys on the third floor in three connecting rooms. The girls were on the second floor, an
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