Ralph Henry Barbour

“ You’re like everybody else; you think because I’m a girl I’m not worth bothering with.”
“Nonsense! You skate finely,” answered Dick earnestly. “Better than any girl I ever saw.”
“Any girl!” echoed Harry scathingly. “That’s it! Girls can’t skate! Why, there isn’t one at Madame Lambert’s who can keep up with me for a minute. I can skate faster than any boy here, too!”
“Well, that’s doing pretty well, isn’t it?” asked Dick with a smile as he tossed his skates down beside hers.
“I don’t like to be beaten—by any one,” grieved Harry. ”

“ The Doctor wanted a new dormitory, but didn’t know how he was going to get it. With room for say twenty more students the school would pay very well. As it was, it sometimes didn’t pay at all; there were years when the books balanced the wrong way and the Doctor and his family stayed at Ferry Hill all through the hot weather. Harry thought of all this as she led the way down the hill through the dim grove, and as a result what conversation ensued was somewhat spasmodic. At the boat-house Dick busied himself with his skates and Harry looked on silently ”

“ Then it’s me for Hammond again. I guess it’s the better school of the two, anyway.”
“I’m sure it’ll suit you better,” she answered angrily. Then she caught sight of the merriment in his eyes, hesitated and laughed softly. “You—you almost made me angry,” she declared.
“Almost, eh? Then you must be a terror, Miss Emery, when you go the limit. Aren’t you going to show me around? It’s getting late and I’m freezing to death.”
“Come on,” answered Harry. “You can leave your skates here; they’ll be all right. And here’s your tie. ”