ied. "Let's make him an
honorary member."

"But the badges," Edna said. "I never saw such people for going off at
tangents."

"Ribbon would be pretty," Shirley suggested, "with the name of the club
in gilt letters. I can letter pretty well."

Her suggestion was received with general acclamation, and after much
discussion, as to color, dark blue was decided on.

"Blue goes rather well with red," Tom said, "and as two of our members
have red hair," his glance went from Patience to Pauline.

"I move we adjourn, the president's getting personal," Pauline pushed
back her chair.

"Who's turn is it to be next?" Jack asked.

They drew lots with blades of grass; it fell to Hilary. "I warn you,"
she said, "that I can't come up to Tom."

Then the first meeting of the new club broke up, the members going
their various ways. Shirley went as far as the parsonage, where she
was to wait for her father.

"I've had a beautiful time," she said warmly. "And I've thought what
to do when my turn comes. Only, I think you'll have to let father in
as an honorary, I'll need him to help me out."

"We'll be only too glad," Pauline said heartily. "This club's growing
fast, isn't it? Have you decided, Hilary?"

Hilary shook her head, "N-not exactly; I've sort of an idea."

CHAPTER VII

HILARY'S TURN

Pauline and Hilary were up in their own room, the "new room," as it had
come to be called, deep in the discussion of certain samples that had
come in that morning's mail.

Uncle Paul's second check was due before long now, and then there were
to be new summer dresses, or rather the goods for them, one apiece all
around.

"Because, of course," Pauline said, turning the pretty scraps over,
"Mother Shaw's got to have one, too. We'll have to get it--on the
side--or she'll declare she doesn't need it, and she does."

"Just the goods won't come to so very much," Hilary said.

"No, indeed, and mother and I can make them."

"We certainly got a lot out of that other check, or rather, you and
mother did," Hilary went on. "And it isn't all gone?"

"Pretty nearly, except the little we decided to lay by each month. But
we did stretch it out in a good many directions. I don't suppose any
of the other twenty-fives will seem quite so big."

"But there won't be such big things to get with them," Hilary said,
"except these muslins."

"It's unspeakably delightful to have money for the little unnecessary
things, isn't it?" P