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"I I do not know just what she means," gasped Ruth, "only that she means to hurt me if she can." "She's mad with you," said one, "because you started the S. B.'s and wouldn't join her old Upede Club. "That's it," said the other. "Don't you mind, Miss Fielding." Then the maid told them they could go into the library. Mrs.
"Yes," said the fat girl. "I'm in a quartette with Mary Cox, Lluella Fairfax and Belle Tingley. Oh, you'll see plenty of us," said Heavy. "And I say! you're going to the Upede meeting to-night; aren't you?" "Why yes. Do you all belong?" "Our quartette? Sure," said the plump girl in her off-hand way. "We'll show you some fun. And I say!" "Well?" asked Ruth.
"As she wanted to?" repeated Ruth, slowly. "Did Helen first plan to have the supper in your quartette?" "Of course she did. It was strictly a Upede affair or would have been if you hadn't been in it. But you're a good little thing, Ruth Fielding, and I tell them you never in this world told Picolet." "I did not indeed, Jennie," said Ruth, sadly. "Well, you couldn't make The Fox believe that.
The Upedes are the Up and Doing Club. The Fussy Curls are the F. C.'s." "The F. C.'s?" questioned Ruth. "What do the letters really stand for?" "Forward Club, I believe. I don't know much about the Fussy Curls," Mary said, with the same tone and air that she used in addressing the little French teacher. "You're a Upede!" cried Helen, quickly.
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