east hesitancy in entering you for the tournament. I told Jack Herrington all about you. He insisted on my making the entry right there and then. You see, he had heard of the Mead

Baker as representative. There are girl teams entered from all along the coast and they are cracker-jacks, too, but they aren't in the same

n her life, and I meant it. Some of us have knocked the ball about a little with the racque

you mean you are in earnest

us in my life, George,"

erstruck-while his companions' faces reflect

You must go through wi

shook

ge. Miss Elting plays, I believe

added with a more hopeful note in his tone. "I know well enough that you play, and play superbly. No girls who are such clever

ntry, explaining to Mr. Herrington that we don't play and th

shouted George. "And they've told all a

e papers printed,

se pocket and flattened it out on one knee with the palms of hi

yself hoarse this morning. It's all about you, girls. You will see tha

to play or not to play. This is an item in the 'Newtown Register' and, as

ste so much time t

Tournament is that of the Meadow-Brook Girls of Meadow-Brook, New Hampshire. This is not, strictly speaking, a tennis club. The young women who form this organization have become known to the public by reason of numerous vacation tours which they have made on foot and by automobile throughout the State. Their thorough ath

my. "Won't my father be ath mad ath a hatter! He t

te,'" announced George, passing

the Meadow-Brook Girls,'" read Dill. "'Their coming is awaited with deep interest by the summer visit

know, too, that long practice is necessary even to play an ordinary game of it. But even in my case, I can't say that I know enough about the game to i

?" demanded Tommy. "Never! I'll play

not play tennis, and that is all there is about it. I am, of course, ineligible, much as I shoul

"We have made fools of ourselves, but through no fault of the girls. We should have f

ay. I didn't suppose there was anything they couldn't do, and I'm hal

he observed the troubled eyes of Harriet Burrell fixe

ter were observed staggering back, bearing some heavy burden between them. The girls could not imagine

What are you fellows trying to do, make a bigg

e impossible,

what have you there

as an unlucky day for us, when we bough

e," roared George, now thoroughly angry.

t it is. Is this bundle a mystery, another of

have been, but we thought you might like to have a look. You'll see what you have missed and we shall shed tears, George shedding

r. "I'll trounce you if you keep on.

rls, have had an opportunity to see it and learn what

ly must let us into this new secret. Such boys! I never saw your like! I'

d Dill Dodd-"the making of wor

of the boys. The latter were now smiling broadly, all save Captain Bake

the edge of the blade with aggravating deliberateness, then

ad them out over the ground in front of the girls' tent. The Meadow-Brooks

" cried Mar

glowing with an excitement and pleasure that she made no