"Where did I cheat, Miss? You can't say I didn't skate around the spruce clump down there."
"That's right, Aggie," said the high school girl who had been on watch with Ruth. "I saw Trix cut that clump, and if she'd gotten in first, she'd have lost on that foul."
"That's a story!" exclaimed Trix; but she turned pale.
"Say no more about it, girls. The race is won by Agnes—and won honestly," Miss Georgiana said.
But Trix Severn considered she had been very ill-used by Agnes. She buried that bone and carefully marked the spot where it lay.
CHAPTER XII
THE CHRISTMAS PARTY
"What do you think Sammy Pinkney said in joggerfry class to-day?" observed Tess, one evening at the supper table.
"'Geography,' dear. Don't try to shorten your words so," begged Ruth.