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 Salisbury, but against Mrs. Hall, a veteran player from Long Island. Mr. Phair must have whispered a few words to the reporters the day before, because that morning nearly every metropolitan paper had a story in it about the "golfing schoolma'am," and when the day's play began, the gallery which followed Charlotte was larger than Lady Salisbury's.

"Oh, I've got to win!" she thought, noting the sympathetic glances and the friendly smiles which greeted her whichever way she turned; and her heart warmed to these strangers who were evidently wishing her well.

Under this influence she grandly rose to expectations, helped also by the fact that she had the advantage of youth in her favor. The veteran Mrs. Hall was feeling the effect of the four days' grind, and her play seemed pale when compared to the fire of her opponent's. In short, Charlotte won so easily that it surprised herself; and when a friendly