and at
once. Rosie had bright blues eyes and pretty hair that blew about her
face in soft, alluring ringlets. Rosie without a doubt would understand.

Poor Janet McFadden! Margery really felt sorry for Janet as she thought
of her going through life weighted down with such a grievance. Of
course, it was awfully good of her, the way she had espoused Margery's
cause. Poor thing, she was probably still fuming over Margery's wrongs
at this very moment, when Margery herself, sucking hard at Willie
Jones's half-finished jaw-breaker, which she was in hopes of concluding
before dinner, was feeling anything but injured and down-trodden.
Perhaps, though, it was the poor thing's pleasure to keep herself
always stirred up.

For some reason Margery was not hungry for dinner, but she forced
herself to eat enough to avert paternal questioning. The last
jaw-breaker she was saving for bed. She could take half an hour's sweet
comfort from it before going to sleep, and still have something to look
forward to upon awakening next morning.

While she waited after dinner until she could, in decency, retire, she
sat a while within the family circle, quietly musing upon the day's
adventures. What a strange, delightful, interesting sort of a place the
world was, to be sure, with all its fiery Janet McFaddens, and sweet
Rosie O'Briens, and paradoxical Willie Joneses! My but she was glad that
she was alive!

And she really was sorry for Janet. If she could only make her see----

"Well, after all, Margery, what do you think about it?"

Her father was looking at her with a quizzical expression, but his
question chimed in so well with her own thoughts that before she
realized what she was saying, Margery answered:

"I don't care if they do act mean sometimes--I like 'em!"

[Illustration]

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Transcriber's note:

Page 42, "increduously" changed to "incredulously" (said Effie,
incredulously)

Page 65, "Magery's" changed to "Margery's" (arm about Margery's)

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