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Open enmity might be worse than the present situation. Kie and Maude, as long as they were making a pretense of friendliness, might let drop some of their plans without meaning to. People who talked so freely often did that. "We'll string 'em along," said Joy slangily. "Maude Wicks can't keep a secret, if I know anything." "Which is doubtful!" laughed Bet. "Say, who are you talking about?
"What, and I who am such a sweetheart of yours?" his speech very foreign, yet slangily correct, being, in fact, all slang. "No," she said, "you spoke different at first, and that is why But this must be the last, unless you say out clearly now what it is you mean " "Now, you are too hard. You know I am wild in love with you. And so are you with me "
And you won't study either!" declared Joy. "I'll have to," protested Bet. "Dad wouldn't like it if I failed to come up to the high standard of the school. Dr. Dale's idea is that modern sports develop the brain and make us wide awake and keen." "Sounds fishy to me," returned Joy slangily. "I may be wrong but I have my doubt that it works.
"Sure as shooting," she smilingly said. Saulisbury mused and puffed. "In that case, we will have to turn in and give the fellow what you Americans call a boost." "That's right," his wife replied slangily. Edith went to her room that night with a mind whirling in dizzying circles, whose motion she could not check. It was terrible to have it all come in this way.
A significant silence fell upon the company of girls. The same thought was in each one's mind. It was Elfreda who finally voiced it. "It looks as though the S. F.'s ought to get busy," she said slangily. "We might lend her the money to make up the difference." "I am afraid that wouldn't do," objected Anne, whose practical experience with poverty had made her wise.
"I've got a peach," cried Mollie slangily, as her hand struck a big stone sharp enough to serve her purpose. "I ought to be able to dig my way through the side of a house with this fellow." "And here's the very one that got too familiar with my toe," said Grace, as she picked up another serviceable stone. "I'm going to get even with it now. I shall make it work as it never worked before."
Cora, Bess and Belle were real girl chums, but they never knew all, the delights of chumship until they "went in" for motoring. Living in the New England town of Chelton, on the Chelton River, life had been rather hum-drum, until the advent of the "gasoline gigs" as Jack, Cora's brother, slangily dubbed them.
Here and there were clumps of trees and patches of rough grass, and that was all. "The farming country is further down, in the valleys," answered Tom Dillon. "Some pretty good soil, too. But up this way it's only good for mining. But that's good enough if you've got a paying mine," and his kindly eyes twinkled. "You bet!" replied Dave, slangily.
Field looked at her husband. "Why, Ed, he is playing Sarasate!" "That's what he is," he returned, slangily, too much astonished to do more than gaze. Williams played on. There was a faint defect in the high notes, as if his fingers did not touch the strings properly, but his bow action showed cultivation and breadth of feeling.
"Dick," he went on sententiously and slangily, "was dead onto his job." After that he helped her into the saddle, and they rode blissfully homeward. Near the ranch they met Dick, who pulled up and eyed them anxiously at first, and then with a broad smile. "Say, Trix," he queried slyly, "who does Rex belong to?" Keith came to the rescue promptly, just as a brave knight should. "You," he retorted.
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