“Steady, Blue Boy, Steady-O,” Mimi fondled. She was erect in the saddle but her voice was easy and lazy.
Blue Boy walled his eyes at the judges as they walked around him but he did not flinch.
After a brief conference in which the judges compared notes, the head field judge stepped up to Mimi on Blue Boy.
With all the grace in the world Mimi accepted the cup and the blue ribbon. With the latter between her teeth, the cup held high in one hand, Mimi cantered past the grand stand and out of the ring.
The cheers of the Sheridan rooters followed her. This was the highest award a Sheridan girl had ever won in a Bridle Club show. For this, Mimi would have—not a picture smothered in a club or team or an orchestra—but a whole page picture mounted on Blue Boy in the Annual. She hoped it would be opposite Chloe’s. Since they had lived together all year it would be dandy to have their pictures next each other’s.
CHAPTER XIX
THE TENNIS TOURNAMENT
When Mimi pranced into Tumble Inn and did a fan dance using her tennis racquet for a fan, Chloe jerked something off the table and stuck it in her portfolio. Betsy and Sue stepped between Chloe and Mimi, making a screen.
“Wouldn’t keep anything from me, would you, pals?”
Mimi zipped her finger across her neck making a cutthroat gesture.
Chloe paled but Sue giggled. Betsy told.