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Page 20
There was a brief silence. Grace lay back among the cushions, looking very
white and tired. Her ankle pained her severely, but the defeat of her
beloved team was a deeper hurt to her proud spirit.
Anne sat apparently wrapped in thought. She nervously clasped and
unclasped her small hands.
"Grace," she said, "don't you think it was queer the way the juniors
seemed to understand our signals. They knew every one of them. I believe
that they found that list and it is all my fault. I had no business to
lose it. I felt when I couldn't find it that it would fall into the wrong
hands and cause trouble. I don't care for myself but if the girls find it
out they will blame you for giving it to me. You know what Miriam said the
other day. Now she will have a chance to be disagreeable to you about it."
Anne was almost in tears.
"Anne, dear," said Grace soothingly, "don't worry about it. I am not
afraid to tell the girls about that list, and I shall certainly do so.
They will understand that it was an accident, and overlook it. Besides, we
are not sure that the juniors found it. I will admit that everything
points that way. You know David warned us that they had some mischief on
hand. If they did find it, the only honorable thing to do was to return
it. They are far more at fault than we are, and the girls will agree with
me, I know."
But Anne was not so confident.
"Miriam will try to make trouble about it, I know she will. And I am to
blame for the whole thing," she said.
Grace was about to reply when Mrs. Harlowe appeared in the door with a
tray of tempting food.
Anne rose and began donning her wraps.
"Won't you stay, Anne, and have supper with my invalid girl?" said Mrs.
Harlowe.
"Please do, Anne," coaxed Grace. "I hate eating alone, and having you here
takes my mind off my pain."
Anne stayed, and the two girls had a merry time over their meal. Grace,
knowing Anne's distress over the lost signals, refused to talk of the
subject. Jessica and Nora, David, Hippy and Reddy dropped in, one after
the other, to inquire for Grace.
"There is nothing like accidents to bring one's friends together,"
declared Grace, as the young people gathered around her.
"I told you to look out for squalls, Grace," said David. "But you didn't
weather the gale very well."
"Those juniors must have been eavesdropping when you made your signal
code. They understood every play you made. By George, I wonder if that
were the meaning of that pow-wow the other day. Some one must have put
Julia Crosby wise, and that's why she called a meeting at the Omnibus
House. It's an out-of-the-way place, and she thought there was no danger
of being disturbed.
"Who could have been mean enough to betray us?" cried Nora. "I am sure
none of the team did, unless----" Nora stopped short.
She had been on the point of using Miriam's name, but remembered just in
time that Miriam's brother was present.
"If we knew the girl who did it, we'd certainly cut her acquaintance,"
said Reddy Brooks.
"Never again should she bask in the light of our society," said Hippy
dramatically.
"None of our friends would do such a thing," said David soberly. Then,
turning to Anne, "What's your opinion on the subject, Queen Anne?"
But Anne could find no answer. She simply shook her head.
Grace, knowing Anne's feelings over the affair, came to the rescue.
"Anne's opinion and mine are the same. We feel sure that they knew our
signals, but we believe they accidentally hit upon the knowledge. There is
no use in crying over spilt milk. We shall have to change all our signals
and take care that it doesn't happen again. And now let's talk of
something more agreeable, for basketball is a sore subject with me in more
than one sense." The talk drifted into other channels much to Anne's
relief.
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