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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Play the Game!, by Ruth Comfort Mitchell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Play the Game! Author: Ruth Comfort Mitchell Release Date: May 27, 2007 [EBook #21625] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PLAY THE GAME! *** Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) PLAY THE GAME! BY RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL [Illustration: Publisher's logo] D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK :: LONDON :: 1924 COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Copyright, 1920, by The Crowell Publishing Company PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA * * * * * TO MY BROTHERS * * * * * Books by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL * * * * * CORDUROY NARRATIVES IN VERSE JANE JOURNEYS ON PLAY THE GAME * * * * * D. APPLETON AND COMPANY New York London * * * * * PLAY THE GAME! CHAPTER I There was no denying the fact that Honor Carmody liked the boys. No one ever attempted to deny it, least of all Honor herself. When she finished grammar school her mother and her gay young stepfather told her they had decided to send her to Marlborough rather than to the Los Angeles High School. The child looked utterly aghast. "Oh," she said, "I wouldn't like that at all. I don't believe I _could_. I couldn't _bear_ it!" "My dear," her mother chided, "don't be silly! It's a quite wonderful school, known all over the country. Girls are sent there from Chicago and New York, and even Boston. You'll be with the best girls, the very nicest----" "That's just it," Honor interrupted, forlornly. "What do you mean?" "_Girls._ Just girls. Oodles and oodles of nothing but girls. Honestly, Muzzie, I don't think I could _stand_ it." She was a large, substantial young creature with a broad brow and hearty coloring and candid eyes. Her stepfather was sur
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