Girls -- Juvenile fiction; World War, 1914-1918 -- Juvenile fiction
"Now I'm going to call all the girls together and tell them the whole
story and that I'm just terribly ashamed." She ran from them, her hands
to her mouth, loudly giving the call of the camp. There was great
rejoicing at Camp-Wish-no more. The cloud of suspicion had lifted. The
girls could not be nice enough to Stella, and for the first time she
seemed to lose her shyness and awkwardness among them. Then Ricky
decided that, in order to entirely forget the whole thing, they would
go on an all-night hike to the old mill on Cobble Hill.
"Hooray--hooray!" went up from eager throats.
"Three cheers for Stella!"
"Three cheers for Peggy!" they cried again.
"Down with Jim Crow!"
That night, under the stars, Keineth snuggled close to Peggy. She had
asked to be Peggy's blanket mate.
"You're all right, Peg," she whispered, Billy-fashion, "and I do love
you most of all!"
CHAPTER XIV
THE TENNIS TOURNAMENT
"Sport's Week" had begun at the Shore Club. The excitement of it
gripped the Lee family. Each talked of the game in which he or she was
most interested and no one listened to the other. Barbara, with an
absorbed air, mentally played the shots she would make when on Friday
she would meet in the final round of match play for the championship
title her old foe, Carol Day. Peggy had no thought for anything but the
swimming contest. Mr. Lee was chairman of the committee on arrangements
and spent most of his time at the telephone. Mrs. Lee did her part in
the decorating of the club-house and went about with her arms full of
gay bunting and her mouth full of pins.
And Keineth shared the excitement! For she had qualified in the
children's tennis tournament and would play in the doubles and had
drawn Billy for her partner!
It was her first real contest! Secretly she shivered with fright but
outwardly tried to appear calm like Peggy. All the day before the
tennis matches began she went about with her racquet in her hand as
though to accustom her trembling fingers to its hold.
Though Billy, since the day he had tried to make Keineth confide in him
the story of her father's absence, had maintained toward her a scornful
indifference, he had accepted her as a partner because there was no
alternative. But he managed to convey to her that he considered it an
unfair indignity that he should be so handicapped. And he talked
entirely of the paddling races.
However, Keineth could not be discouraged. In her mind was one thought
only--they _must_ win! For, each day, in her room she was writing a
careful account of all that happened to send to her Daddy, and failure
could have no part in the story.
And in the very first match they defeated Molly Sawyer and Joe Gary!
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