t.

"Miriam will try to make trouble about it, I know she will. And I am to
blame for the whole thing," she said.

Grace was about to reply when Mrs. Harlowe appeared in the door with a
tray of tempting food.

Anne rose and began donning her wraps.

"Won't you stay, Anne, and have supper with my invalid girl?" said Mrs.
Harlowe.

"Please do, Anne," coaxed Grace. "I hate eating alone, and having you here
takes my mind off my pain."

Anne stayed, and the two girls had a merry time over their meal. Grace,
knowing Anne's distress over the lost signals, refused to talk of the
subject. Jessica and Nora, David, Hippy and Reddy dropped in, one after
the other, to inquire for Grace.

"There is nothing like accidents to bring one's friends together,"
declared Grace, as the young people gathered around her.

"I told you to look out for squalls, Grace," said David. "But you didn't
weather the gale very well."

"Those juniors must have been eavesdropping when you made your signal
code. They understood every play you made. By George, I wonder if that
were the meaning of that pow-wow the other day. Some one must have put
Julia Crosby wise, and that's why she called a meeting at the Omnibus
House. It's an out-of-the-way place, and she thought there was no danger
of being disturbed.

"Who could have been mean enough to betray us?" cried Nora. "I am sure
none of the team did, unless----" Nora stopped short.

She had been on the point of using Miriam's name, but remembered just in
time that Miriam's brother was present.

"If we knew the girl who did it, we'd certainly cut her acquaintance,"
said Reddy Brooks.

"Never again should she bask in the light of our society," said Hippy
dramatically.

"None of our friends would do such a thing," said David soberly. Then,
turning to Anne, "What's your opinion on the subject, Queen Anne?"

But Anne could find no answer. She simply shook her head.

Grace, knowing Anne's feelings over the affair, came to the rescue.

"Anne's opinion and mine are the same. We feel sure that they knew our
signals, but we believe they accidentally hit upon the knowledge. There is
no use in crying over spilt milk. We shall have to change all our signals
and take care that it doesn't happen again. And now let's talk of
something more agreeable, for basketball is a sore subject with me in more
than one sense." The talk drifted into other channels much to Anne's
relief.

"I have an idea!" exclaimed H