"
"That's so, too; but just the same I didn't like the look of Kelly's
face when he came through."
"He looked to me like a bulldog that had swallowed a baby's boot and
didn't like the taste of the blacking on it," laughed Roy.
At this juncture the girls came into the room. All were radiant and
smiling in anticipation of the day's sport.
"Well, we've been and gone and done it," announced Roy.
"Done what?" demanded Peggy.
"Signed the paperrr-r-r-s," was the rejoinder, rendered with great
dramatic effect.
He waved the duplicate entry blanks above his head.
"Let's see them," begged Jess.
"All right. Look what I've let us in for!"
"Why--why--good gracious, Roy, you've got us down for everything,"
gasped Peggy.
"That's right, all the way across from soup to nuts," struck in the
slangy Jimsy.
They all laughed. The color rose in the girls' faces.
"If only we can win some of them," cried Jess.
"Well, the machines are all in fine shape. If we don't win it will be
because the other fellows have better machines.
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