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Postpone all such junketing until we are pulling well together. And beware of demerits. Remember that ten of them, for whatever cause, will send a girl home from Briarwood immediately." This about the picnics hit the Upedes. Ruth and Helen knew that they were planning just such amusements. Helen took this interference on Mrs. Tellingham's part quite to heart.
They feel just as I do about it there is too much pulling and hauling about these societies. They are not sure that they wish to belong to either the Upedes or the F. C.'s." "But just think!" wailed Helen. "How much fun we would be cut out of! We wouldn't have any friends " "That's nonsense.
But when somebody broached the subject of school clubs, Ruth was surprised that Helen should at once talk boldly for the Upedes. She really urged their cause as though she was already a member. "I am not at all sure that I wish to join either the Forwards or the Up and Doings," said Ruth, quietly, when one of the other Infants asked her what she intended doing.
But she was stricken motionless as well as speechless by her chum's defection, and before she could recover her poise the wagons had begun to move, rattling over the frozen road toward Triton Lake. Ah! how it hurt! For weeks Ruth had endured slights, and haughty looks, and innuendoes from Mary Cox and her Upedes and the girl from the Red Mill had accepted all uncomplainingly.
Oh, I hope so, Mrs. Tellingham!" cried Ruth, in great distress. "I am sure I love her just the same and always shall." "But she evidently finds her friends among the Upedes. Why did she not join this new society that you have started?" "I I did not mean to start it without her," stammered Ruth. "It was really only my suggestion. The other Infants took it up " "But you named it?"
"As I do, then, if you insist," said Ruth, bravely, "would better not pledge themselves to either the F. C.'s or the Upedes until we have talked this new idea over." And with that the company broke up and the new girls went away to their rooms. But Helen and Ruth found a barrier raised between them that evening, and the latter sprinkled her pillow with a few quiet tears before she went to sleep.
"Yes," said Mary Cox, nodding, and seemed to have finished with that subject. But Helen was interested; she had begun to like this Cox girl, and kept to the subject. "What are the Upedes and the F. C.'s rivals about?" "Both clubs are anxious to get members," Mary Cox said.
You girls can go on and freeze your noses and your toeses, if you like. Me for the steam-heated room and a box of bonbons. But I hope the girls who go will be nicer to you than some of those Upedes have been lately, Ruthie." Helen blushed now; but Ruth hastened to say: "Oh, don't you fuss about me, Mercy. Some of the Sweetbriars mean to go. This isn't confined to one club in particular.
We're going to get as many together this evening as we can. Now, do come!" "Oh, Ruth!" whispered Helen, when they were out of ear-shot of the others. "What will the Upedes say?" "We're not interfering with either of the school clubs," declared her chum, emphatically. "But I guess it won't hurt us to become acquainted with those who are as new here as ourselves.
"And we'll welcome them as fellow-infants," whispered Ruth to Helen. "Let's hold a reception in our room this evening to all the newcomers. What say, Helen?" Her chum was a little doubtful as to the wisdom of this course. She did not like to offend their friends in the Upedes. Yet the suggestion attracted Helen, too.
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