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The Scarlet Runner over and see us play to-morrow. Told him it would be a nice change for him to see a little honest football."

"Poor fellow! Georgie, do you think we ought to judge others so—Don't you think you were rather—"

"Ugh!" Georgie shuddered. "It made me sick to look at the brute. It isn't a bit better than the old days before the Union when the unsophisticated collier found a sovereign over night, in his unprofessional boots."

"What did he say?" Her voice was quiet.

Georgie smiled. "Well, he said a good deal. He was saying it after me all the way down the street. But I was in the Scarlet Runner, and didn't stop to listen to his sayings."

Diana gazed at him with eyes full of love in spite of her disapproval. The glasses through which she saw Georgie must have been extremely rose-colored, for in spite of his engaging ways, no girl had ever before followed his athletic ravings 171