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 "All but three," replied Dick, "and they won't subscribe more than a quarter apiece, I guess."

"All right," said Lanny. "That leaves us about twenty-one dollars behind then. To-day's the eleventh, isn't it? And Mr. Grayson's birthday is the twenty-fifth, and that's just two weeks from to-day. When are you planning to buy the things?"

"I suppose we ought to do it a week ahead," said Morris. "It may take three or four days for them to get here by freight."

"Maybe longer," said Dick. "I wouldn't leave it much after the fifteenth."

"The fifteenth is Sunday," Morris reminded. "We might go to New York the next day, though."

"Who's going?" asked Gordon.

"Louise and May and I, unless some of you fellows want to go along."

"I guess none of us could get away," responded Dick. "You'll have to cut recitations, won't you, though?"

"Only one. We'll take the two-twelve train and that'll give us nearly three hours before the stores close. We can get back by eight. If we can get everything at Marsden's it won't take more than an