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ey're the relics we found," said Katherine. "We dug them out of the hole we made." "I dug most of them," said Anthony. "He never touched one!" said Slim in an indignant aside to Hinpoha. "To hear him talk you'd think he was the only one who ever did anything around here." Katherine considered fishing the most inane occupation under the sun, so she curled up on the beach to read while the enthusiastic anglers put out in the rowboats. Gladys did not care for fishing either, so she decided to stay on shore and keep Katherine company. "What are you reading?" she asked, sitting down beside her in the shadow of the bluff. Katherine held up the book so she could see the title. "_Romeo and Juliet_!" exclaimed Gladys. "Why, Katherine! I thought you hated love stories." Katherine grinned rather shamefacedly. "I do, usually," she replied. Gladys sat back and regarded her in wonder. Here was a new side coming to light. Katherine the unromantic; Katherine the prosaic; the independent, the hater of sentimental reading, devouring love stories all of a sudden! Gladys drew pictures in the sand and pondered on the meaning of it. Katherine read on absorbedly for ten minutes, then she laid the book down abruptly. "Gladys," she said, "I want you to tell me something." "What is it?" asked Gladys, pausing in the middle of an intricate pattern. "What is the matter with me?" asked Katherine. "What's the matter with you?" repeated Gladys. "There isn't _anything_ the matter with you. You're a dear." "There is, too," said Katherine. "Somehow all the girls I read about in books are different. You're like the girls in books and so is Hinpoha and so are the rest of you, but I'm not. I'm big and awkward and homely, and that's all I'll ever be." "No, you're not," declared Gladys. "You're the most fun that ever happened." "That's just the trouble," said Katherine, drawing up her knees and clasping her bony hands around them. "Everybody thinks I'm a joke, and that's all. Nobody ever admired me. People think I'm a cross between a lunatic asylum and a circus. I'm so tired of hearing people say, 'What a _funny_ girl that Katherine Adams is! She's a perfect scream!' They never say 'What a nice looking girl,' or 'What a charming girl,' the way they always do about you and Hinpoha. I _do_ wish somebody admired me once without being so desperately amused! Now I want you to tell me exactly what's the matter with my looks. Somet
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