led Lucy.
"I'll go as a school girl, I guess. I can wear a checked gingham dress I
have and a white apron, by shortening them. White stockings and white
tennis shoes will go well with it. I'll wear my hair down my back in two
braids."

"I shan't tell you what my costume's going to be. Only you will never
know me on that night." Muriel made this announcement with a tantalizing
smile.

"I would know you anywhere," contradicted Jerry. "I'll bet you a dinner
at Baretti's that I'll walk up to you after the grand march and say
'Hello, Muriel.'"

"I'll bet you you don't," was Muriel's confident reply.

"This dance has put a large crimp in basket ball," Ronny suddenly
observed. "It seems to be at a standstill. Vera said today that she
heard the juniors had challenged you sophs."

"Not yet," returned Marjorie. "Robin heard the same thing. She mentioned
it to me after chemistry today. Maybe we are due to get a challenge
tomorrow. If we do we will not take it up until after the dance. We
don't care to be bothered with it now. Do we, Muriel?"

"No, sir. After the masquerade is over we'll then turn our undivided
attention to laying the juniors up for the winter. That may be the last
game of the year, unless the freshies yearn for another. I am tired of
playing, to tell you the truth. I don't intend to play next year."

"Nor I," Marjorie said. "I like the good old game, but it takes up so
much of one's spare time. I shall go in for long walks for exercise. I
have never yet prowled around this part of the world as much as I
pleased."

"I see where I grow thin and sylph-like," beamed Jerry. "_I_ shall
accompany you on those prowls."

"I think I'll join the united prowlers' association, too," laughed
Ronny. "I'd love to have a chance to prowl about Hamilton Arms, wouldn't
you? I walked past there the other afternoon. They say that old house is
simply filled with antiques. They also say that Miss Susanna Hamilton
won't permit a student to set foot on the lawn. And all because she fell
out with a member of the Board. He must have done something very
serious."

"It is too bad she has shut herself away from everyone," Marjorie mused.
"She is probably unhappy. Leila says she looks like a little old robin.
Her hair isn't very gray and she is quite energetic. She has a rose
garden and digs in it a lot. Just to think. She could tell us the most
_interesting_ things about Brooke Hamilton and we don't know her and
never will."

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