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Added to her natural embarrassment at having been the in-former a role which no one ever really enjoys was the matter which lay like lead on Agony's own conscience and which tortured her out of all proportion to its real significance. "Pretender!" the whole world seemed to shriek at her wherever she went.
Some of the fellers over there wanted to take him out and hang him, but I kinda hated to draw attention away from Jack's p'formance which was right interesting. Bill Wilson, he reckoned I better fetch him over here and ask you fellers about it; Bill says this mob of greasers might make a fuss if the agony's piled on too thick, but whatever you say will be did."
Migwan, busy straightening out the rows of bracelets and rings, did not notice the hunted expression in Agony's face, and soon the bugle sounded, calling all the girls together on the dock.
After awhile she began to speak soothing words, and gradually Agony's tempestuous sobs ceased and she grew calm. Then the two talked together for a long while, of the dangers of ambition, the seeking for personal glory at whatever cost.
So Agony, under Mary's wing, received the permission that otherwise would not have been given her. "Yes, it will be all right for you to go in your bloomers," said Mrs. Grayson, in answer to Agony's question on the subject. "Our girls always wear them to the villages about here; the people are accustomed to seeing them.
But Agony was more vivid than Oh-Pshaw in every way. Her hair was more brilliantly black; her eyes more sparklingly blue; her lips more glowingly carmine. The greatest point of difference was their voices. Oh-Pshaw spoke in deep, musical chest tones, but in Agony's there was an added quality of resonance, a timbre unlike anything she had ever heard before.
To be prominent; to be popular, was Agony's chief aim in life; and to be pointed out in a crowd as the most popular girl seemed the one thing in the world most desirable to her. She, too, would be prominent and popular, she resolved; she, too, would be pointed out in the crowd. The sarcastic voice again broke in upon her reverie. "Have you seen the hippopotamus over there in the bow?
Come on, let's get this bed made up in a hurry. I see the councilors coming back. That means their show is going to commence." Of course, it was not long before Agony's little passage of arms with Jane Pratt in behalf of timid little Carmen was known all over camp, and Agony went up another point in popular favor as Jane Pratt went down.
In a few moments the girl came along and nearly stumbled over her in the darkness, crying out in alarm at the unexpected encounter. Agony's swiftly adjusted flashlight fell upon the heavy features and unpleasant eyes of Jane Pratt. "O Jane," cried Agony, "you haven't been over at that boys' camp, have you? You surely know it's forbidden Dr. Grayson said so distinctly when he read the camp rules."
"Then you deliberately deceived her?" asked Agony witheringly. "Well, and what if I did?" retorted Jane. "You have absolutely no sense of honor," Agony remarked contemptuously. "Deceiving people is just as bad as lying, or cheating." Stung by Agony's tone, Jane flushed a little. "Well, what do you expect me to do about it?" she demanded. "What business is it of yours, anyway?"
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