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"No, Fritz, I cannot—" "You will not." "Well, then I will not ask mother to invite you to go on with us." Amy spoke decidedly, but Fritz was not ready to give up. "Oh, Amy, do be reasonable! I cannot say anything more to your mother, for you are in an obstinate mood, evidently determined to persuade yourself that you do not wish us to travel with you." "That is true; I do not wish you to go on with us." "But you and I are such friends." "So we are, and so we shall continue to be. Because we are such friends, I am sure that you will forgive me for being so—" "So unreasonable." "No—reasonable. Now just look at the whole thing sensibly. Here we are—mamma and I and two girls." "What do you call yourself? Aren't you a girl?"

"What do suppose she'll be like?" "How can I tell?" "Well, Brenda Barlow, I should think you'd have some idea—your own cousin." "Oh, that doesn't make any difference. I've hardly thought about her." "But aren't you just a little curious?" continued the questioner, a pretty girl with dark hair. "No, Nora, I'm not. She's sixteen and a half—almost a year older than we are. She's never lived in a big city, and that's enough." "Oh, a country girl?" "I don't know that she's a country girl exactly, but I just wish she wasn't coming. She'll spoil all our fun." "How?" asked a third girl, seated on the bottom step. "Why, who ever heard of five girls going about together? If three's a crowd, five's a perfect regiment. I agree with Brenda that it's too bad to have her come. Now when there's four of us we can pair off and have a good time." The last speaker had a long thin face with a determined mouth and large china blue eyes. She was the only one of the four whom the average observer would not call pretty. Yet in her little circle she had her own way more often even than Brenda, who was not only somewhat of a tyrant, but a beauty as well. "Brenda and Belle They carry a spell,"

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