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You always think some one's after somebody else," said Ada, impatiently, whose high breeding obliged her to be rather peremptory with her simple parent. "Mr. Vernon is a pauper, and so is Hessie. And, besides, Hessie is not the kind of girl anybody would want to marry." "Well, I'm not so sure of that," said Selina.
"Why!" cried Lily, rather sharply, "you speak as though Hessie was always getting into trouble." "You cannot deny but that she has frequently made a faux pas, as it were," said Jess, smiling. "And what she does wrong," added Laura, with some bitterness, "usually affects the rest of us." "She did not do a thing wrong!" cried Lily stormily. "You girls are just too mean!"
"Out of the carnival?" cried several of her listeners in chorus. "And Hester," cried Bobby, "is in the Dress Parade. What did I tell you? Gee Gee was just hoping to queer us." "It is Hester Grimes who has queered us," Laura said, much more sternly than she usually spoke. "And we were all warned to be so careful!" "Now, don't blame Hessie!" cried Hester's chum angrily.
"Oh, come on, Lil," said Bobby. "Tell us the worst. We're prepared for murder, even." "You are very rude, Clara Hargrew," declared Lily Pendleton. "Hessie is not to blame. She failed in rhetoric, and when Miss Carrington tried to put a lot of home work on her she refused to take it." "What?" gasped Jess. "Oh! She did refuse, did she?" snapped Bobby. "And a fat lot that would help her!"
"What do you suppose Miss Carrington has done?" "Oh, Gee Gee!" groaned Bobby, in despair. "I knew she would break out in a fresh spot." "Do tell us what it is," begged Jess Morse. "It is about Hessie," said Lily. "Hester Grimes?" demanded Laura, with a rather grim expression. "What has happened to her now?"
"Well, I don't care!" cried Lily. "Gee Gee is just as mean " "Granted!" agreed Bobby, with emphasis. "But tell us how much Hessie has been set back?" "Of course Miss Carrington has punished her if she was impudent," said Laura decidedly. "She has punished us all!" cried Lily. "She refuses to allow Hessie to skate to-night. She's out of it."
"And she's as big as Hessie Grimes!" exclaimed Jess on the other side, and catching her chum's idea. "Would you take Hester's part in the masquerade?" asked Laura pointblank. "But she doesn't belong to Central High!" wailed Lily Pendleton. "Nonsense!" exclaimed Jess. "What does it matter? This is all for a show. It is no competition with other members of the League."
Hester, who grasped many facts of that kind, was always amused by the cold consideration with which he treated her on his rare visits to the parental Towers; and which his sisters could only construe as a sign that "Algy was gone on Hessie." "But he will never marry her," they told each other. "Algy looks higher." It was true.
"I don't believe Hessie would let any other girl wear her masquerade suit." "Sure she wouldn't!" exclaimed Bobby, with disgust. "She'll crab the whole game if she can. Hester Grimes always was a nuisance." But Laura suddenly clapped her hands in real joy. "Oh, no!" she cried. "We won't ask Janet to wear any other girl's costume. I know what would be fine."
"She has no style," said Selina, "but she has a nice face; and she's coming to stay with Sibbie Loftus next week, when she leaves Vi Newhaven. She may be Birmingham, Ada, but she's just as thick with county people as we are." "I did not rightly make out," said Mrs. Pratt, reflectively, "whether that tall gentleman, Mr. Vernon, was after Miss West or Hessie Gresley." "Oh, ma!
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