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Rh we could give it to someone who had made more points than anyone else and that it would be all quite simple. But with three and maybe four fellows making eight"

"That's just it," said Grace. "We can't ask them to toss up for it or draw lots, can we? So the best thing to do is to decide after it's all over which of them really did the best."

"But how can we decide that?" asked May Burnham. "How are we to know which did the best?"

"We can," replied Grace convincedly. "Guy and the others will know if we don't."

"Guy will have ten points himself if he wins the pole-vault," said Louise. "That would make it very simple."

"I don't believe he's going to," said another girl. "He's just missed that try, and I think that long-legged Springdale boy did it a minute ago."

"Oh, dear, if he doesn't!" exclaimed Louise hopelessly. "There, he's gone and missed it again! No, he hasn't! He hasn't! He went over! Oh, do you think that makes him win?"

Evidently it didn't, for while Guy was being congratulated by those around the vaulting standard the bar was again raised and a boy with a megaphone announced: "The bar is now at ten feet one and one-half inches!"