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 "Maybe the others won't be enthusiastic, though," replied Gordon. "By the way, were those prices you gave the prices we'll have to pay for the things, Louise?"

"Why, no! We forgot that! We won't have to pay nearly so much, will we? Thirty per cent. of one hundred and twenty-eight is—is"

"Thirty-seven-forty," said Morris.

"Thirty-eight dollars and forty cents," corrected May. "Then we will have to pay only about—about ninety dollars! That's lovely!"

"Say a hundred, to be on the safe side," advised Dick. "I guess we can manage that. The question is now, how are we going at it? Wouldn't it be well to have several lists and"

"Have four," said Lanny. "You take one and Gordon will take one"

"Thank you!" muttered Gordon.

"And Louise and Nell can have the other two."

And so it was arranged, in spite of Gordon's lack of enthusiasm, and that necessitated the making of four new lists with two signatures on each.

"I want to see you destroy that first subscription of mine," announced Lanny. "If I had to pay two dollars twice I'd be broke all the Fall!"