“What are you two so quiet about?”
Polly and Lois exchanged smiles.
“You’ll see soon enough; it’s about you,” Polly told her, and for fear too much had been said, Lois added:
“It’s something terrible!”
Betty stopped in the act of putting some tomato catsup on her croquette to demand:
“Which exam. have I flunked, or is it all of them?”
“Worse than that,” answered Lois. “But you’ll soon know.”
At 2 o’clock the teams met in classroom A and Betty’s name was put up for substitute, and as Louise had prophesied, every one voted yes. The girls all adored Betty and had been sorry to see her left out in the first election on account of the fouls she always made. But now when her name came up again and they remembered the plucky fight she had made the day of the Indoor Meet, they were only too delighted to welcome her as one of the “subs.”
“Hadn’t we better call her in for the rest of the meeting?” suggested Louise. “Polly, will you go and find her? Don’t tell her what she’s wanted for; just bring her here.”
A few minutes later Betty arrived, looking very apprehensive, and Louise told her with all due form and ceremony that she had been chosen to fill Flora’s place on the team.