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"Georgie" "Georgia," she said, "I can't make it out. Perhaps father knows—"

Her father, however, sent down word emphatically that he did not know. He was not pleased to be waked up.

Georgie in the hall faced Diana with a determined face.

"You told me last night," he said slowly, "that you would give anything to persuade me not to play to-day. I suppose this means that you have taken the law into your own hands. I suppose this brilliant plan is to stop me playing this afternoon. It is a quarter to eight now. There is no train quick enough to do it, even if you were on the line."

Dickie, her young brother, on the stairs called out with friendly sympathy:

"Take the dog-cart, Georgie."

Georgie looked up.

"Perhaps," said he, "you can persuade your sister to tell you what she's done with my motor."

Diana flushed. 176