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Updated: June 8, 2025
That it was "poky" and "stuffy." And on this second day Ruth and Helen saw that the rivalry for membership between the clubs was very keen indeed. A girl couldn't have friends among the members of both the F. C.'s and the Upedes that was plain. Many new girls arrived on this day mostly from the Lumberton direction.
'Up and Doing'! No slow-coaches about the Upedes. We're all alive and wide awake." "I hope we will get in with a lively set of girls," said Helen, with a sigh. "It will be your own fault if you don't," said Mary Cox. Oddly enough, she did not show any desire to urge the newcomers to join the Upedes. Helen was quite piqued by this.
There were no sessions of either the F. C.'s or the Upedes on this evening, and Miss Picolet, to whom Ruth had spoken about the little reception to be held in her room, approved of it. Helen was bound to be popular among any crowd of girls, for she was so gay and good-tempered.
But they said they were just going to have some fun with you " "Who said?" demanded Ruth. "Mary Cox and and the others." "They told you they were coming to haze us?" "The Upedes ye-es," admitted Helen. "And of course, it wouldn't have amounted to anything if that Oh, Ruth! was it truly the harp that sounded?" "How could that marble harp make any sound?" demanded Ruth, sharply.
In spite of the fact that Ruth suspected Mary Cox of deliberately throwing herself in the way of Helen and she on their arrival at the school, with the sole object of getting them pledged to this society, the girl from the Red Mill could not fail to appreciate the good-natured attempts of the Upedes to make them both feel at home in their new surroundings. They must be grateful for that.
Helen said nothing at all about The Fox and her room-mate. But Ruth saw that the Upedes especially those who had been caught in the French teacher's raid on Duet Number 2 whispered a good deal among themselves, and when they looked at Ruth they did not look kindly. After recitation, and before dinner, several of the girls deliberately cut her as Mary Cox had.
Ruth walked beside the good-natured Jennie Stone. "My, my!" chuckled that damsel, "aren't those Fussy Curls jealous? They had to take the teachers into their old club so as to be more numerous than the Upedes. But I guess Mary Cox will show 'em! She is a fox, and I guess she always will be!" "Is that what they call Miss Cox?" asked Ruth, not a little troubled.
And we have a good school team which often plays teams from other schools. It's made up mostly of Seniors, however." "But the other clubs?" urged Helen. "Why, the principal clubs of Briarwood are the Upedes and the Fussy Curls," said their new friend. "What ridiculous names!" cried Helen. "I suppose they mean something, though?" "That's just our way of speaking of them.
Helen did not bring in many members of the Upedes; indeed, just then they all seemed to keep away from Duet Two, and none of them spoke to Ruth. That is, none save Jennie Stone. The fat girl was altogether too good-natured and really too kind at heart to treat Ruth Fielding as Jennie's roommates did.
Since the launching of the Sweetbriars Helen had deliberately sought society among the Upedes, and especially among the quartette who dwelt next door to the chums. "And she is going to have almond cakes. She says she has an old nurse named Babette who makes the most de-lic-i-ous almond cakes Is that so, Ruth Fielding?"
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