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Title: Play the Game!

Author: Ruth Comfort Mitchell

Release Date: May 27, 2007 [EBook #21625]

Language: English

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PLAY THE GAME!

BY

RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL

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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

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TO MY BROTHERS

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Books by

RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL

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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