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6 "Don't call it my society. We don't want any one-girl club. That was the trouble with the Up and Doings just as 'too much faculty' is the objection to the Forward Club."

"Oh, I de-test the Fussy Curls just as much as ever," declared Helen, quickly, "although Madge Steele is president."

"Well, we 'Infants,' as they called us last fall when we entered Briarwood, are in control of the S. B.'s, and we can help each other," said Ruth, with satisfaction.

"But you talk about the Upedes being a one-girl club. I know The Fox was all-in-all in that. But you're pretty near the whole thing in the S. B.'s, Ruthie," and Helen laughed, slily. "Why, they say you wrote all the ritual and planned everything."

"Never mind," said Ruth, calmly; "we can't have a dictator in the S. B.'s without changing the constitution. The same girl can't be president for more than one year."

"But you deserve to boss it all," said her chum, warmly. "And I for one wouldn't mind if you did."

Helen was a very impulsive, enthusiastic girl. When she and Ruth Fielding had come to Briarwood Hall she had immediately taken up with a lively and thoughtless set of girls who had banded themselves into the Up and Doing Club, and whose leader was Mary Cox, called "The Fox,"