. Nancy Lee's namesake .. . ed to petition the saidJane Learned to be the official Fair Oaks contest-ant in the Ten-School Short Story Prize other Fair Oaks girl was free to compete, andthe more who tried the better ; but We wantJane! cried the Short Story class, adjourned,after a brief but exciting session, to the third floorof the Senior House. They had gone there to pre-sent their resolution, formally written down byLloyd Mallory, whose hand was like copper plate,on a sheet of Kittie Westervelts gold-lettered FairOaks stationery. Having duly presented the reso-lution, they next
. Nancy Lee's namesake .. . ed to petition the saidJane Learned to be the official Fair Oaks contest-ant in the Ten-School Short Story Prize other Fair Oaks girl was free to compete, andthe more who tried the better ; but We wantJane! cried the Short Story class, adjourned,after a brief but exciting session, to the third floorof the Senior House. They had gone there to pre-sent their resolution, formally written down byLloyd Mallory, whose hand was like copper plate,on a sheet of Kittie Westervelts gold-lettered FairOaks stationery. Having duly presented the reso-lution, they next proceeded to endorse it orally,as noisily and as long as the rules about quiet forafternoon study hours would permit. Their actiontook Jane completely by surprise ; and the fact thatlittle Christina presented the resolution, accompa-nied by a timid hug, upset her so completely thatshe gasped feebly like a fish out of water, stam-mered Thank you ! and then devoted herself toa blushing perusal of the resolution, taking so 142. DONT TRY TO EXPLAIN IT GRACE ALLENS REASON much time to it that the enthusiasm of the re-solvers was finally dampened. They rememberedtheir afternoon duties and went off to attend tothem. Seems as if Jane wasnt so jolly as she usedto be, commented Plain Mary Smith thought-fully. Maybe shes just not so slangy, suggestedMildred Wallace. To-day for once Jane she is not so quick onthe up-give, cried Jeanne Durand gaily. Isthat slang? Jane taught it me last year. u Quick on the uptake, you mean, Jeanne, cor-rected Nancy Lee. Yes, it is slang—or at leastits very near being slang, Im sure. Janes funny lately, announced little Chris-tina worriedly. Shes queer to me, and she wasqueer about this. I dont see Nobody will hold you responsible for Janesqueerness, dearie, so dont try to explain it,Phyllis Knight cut in, drawing Christina into herroom and ostentatiously closing the door. Nancy Lee shook a vindictive fist at the in-nocent door. Janes worrying -; She
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