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Rh "I suppose so. And tie it with purple ribbons, eh?"

"Of course." Louise reflected, tapping a pencil against her white teeth. "It isn't going to be awfully easy, but we'll do it all right. When ought we to have it done?"

"Why, I guess there's no hurry. Any time before the Springdale meet will do, I think."

"Better have it on exhibition a week or so in one of the windows down town," suggested Dick.

"We can have it done in two weeks, I'm certain," said Louise. "I'll get a whole lot of the girls around here some afternoon and we'll work on it. And—and it's supposed to be our idea entirely, you say, Lanny?"

"Yes, we thought it would be better like that. You needn't tell the others that we know anything about it. Just sort of give them to understand that it's your idea and that Guy and the rest of us are tickled to death with it."

"I wouldn't want to pretend I thought of it," replied Louise, "because, of course, I didn't, but I don't suppose anyone will ask who did think of it. What we ought to do, first of all, I guess, is to make a pattern of it so as to get it just the right size."

"Ought to have a drawing made, I'd say," re-