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"
Go
on
,
you
fellows
,
stir
up
a
local
scrap
,
will
you
?
"
put
in
Tracy
Trumbull
.
"
I
'll
bet
anything
that
's
what
comes
of
it
in
the
end
.
Gil
Griffiths
wo
n't
like
it
,
you
can
gamble
on
that
.
I
would
n't
if
I
were
in
his
position
.
If
you
want
to
stir
up
a
lot
of
feeling
here
,
go
to
it
,
but
I
'll
lay
a
bet
that
's
what
it
comes
to
.
"
Now
Sondra
Finchley
's
nature
was
of
just
such
a
turn
that
a
thought
of
this
kind
was
most
appealing
to
her
.
However
,
as
interesting
as
the
idea
was
to
her
at
the
time
,
nothing
definite
might
have
come
of
it
,
had
it
not
been
that
subsequent
to
this
conversation
and
several
others
held
with
Bertine
Cranston
,
Jill
Trumbull
,
Patricia
Anthony
,
and
Arabella
Stark
,
the
news
of
this
adventure
,
together
with
some
comments
as
to
himself
,
finally
came
to
the
ears
of
Gilbert
Griffiths
,
yet
only
via
Constance
Wynant
to
whom
,
as
local
gossips
would
have
it
,
he
was
prospectively
engaged
.
And
Constance
,
hoping
that
Gilbert
would
marry
her
eventually
,
was
herself
irritated
by
the
report
that
Sondra
had
chosen
to
interest
herself
in
Clyde
,
and
then
,
for
no
sane
reason
,
as
she
saw
it
,
proclaim
that
he
was
more
attractive
than
Gilbert
.
So
,
as
much
to
relieve
herself
as
to
lay
some
plan
of
avenging
herself
upon
Sondra
,
if
possible
,
she
conveyed
the
whole
matter
in
turn
to
Gilbert
,
who
at
once
proceeded
to
make
various
cutting
references
to
Clyde
and
Sondra
.
And
these
carried
back
to
Sondra
,
along
with
certain
embellishments
by
Constance
,
had
the
desired
effect
.
It
served
to
awaken
in
her
the
keenest
desire
for
retaliation
.
For
if
she
chose
she
certainly
could
be
nice
to
Clyde
,
and
have
others
be
nice
to
him
,
too
.
And
that
would
mean
perhaps
that
Gilbert
would
find
himself
faced
by
a
social
rival
of
sorts
--
his
own
cousin
,
too
,
who
,
even
though
he
was
poor
,
might
come
to
be
liked
better
.
What
a
lark
!
At
the
very
same
time
there
came
to
her
a
way
by
which
she
might
most
easily
introduce
Clyde
,
and
yet
without
seeming
so
to
do
,
and
without
any
great
harm
to
herself
,
if
it
did
not
terminate
as
she
wished
.
For
in
Lycurgus
among
the
younger
members
of
those
smarter
families
whose
children
had
been
to
the
Snedeker
School
,
existed
a
rather
illusory
and
casual
dinner
and
dance
club
called
the
"
Now
and
Then
.
"
It
had
no
definite
organization
,
officers
or
abode
.
Any
one
,
who
,
because
of
class
and
social
connections
was
eligible
and
chose
to
belong
,
could
call
a
meeting
of
other
members
to
give
a
dinner
or
dance
or
tea
in
their
homes
.
And
how
simple
,
thought
Sondra
in
browsing
around
for
a
suitable
vehicle
by
which
to
introduce
Clyde
,
if
some
one
other
than
herself
who
belonged
could
be
induced
to
get
up
something
and
then
at
her
suggestion
invite
Clyde
.
How
easy
,
say
,
for
Jill
Trumbull
to
give
a
dinner
and
dance
to
the
"
Now
and
Thens
,
"
to
which
Clyde
might
be
invited
.
And
by
this
ruse
she
would
thus
be
able
to
see
him
again
and
find
out
just
how
much
he
did
interest
her
and
what
he
was
like
.
Accordingly
a
small
dinner
for
this
club
and
its
friends
was
announced
for
the
first
Thursday
in
December
,
Jill
Trumbull
to
be
the
hostess
.
To
it
were
to
be
invited
Sondra
and
her
brother
,
Stuart
,
Tracy
and
Gertrude
Trumbull
,
Arabella
Stark
,
Bertine
and
her
brother
,
and
some
others
from
Utica
and
Gloversville
as
well
.
And
Clyde
.
But
in
order
to
safeguard
Clyde
against
any
chance
of
failure
or
even
invidious
comment
of
any
kind
,
not
only
she
but
Bertine
and
Jill
and
Gertrude
were
to
be
attentive
to
and
considerate
of
him
.
They
were
to
see
that
his
dance
program
was
complete
and
that
neither
at
dinner
nor
on
the
dance
floor
was
he
to
be
left
to
himself
,
but
was
to
be
passed
on
most
artfully
from
one
to
the
other
until
evening
should
be
over
.
For
,
by
reason
of
that
,
others
might
come
to
be
interested
in
him
,
which
would
not
only
take
the
thorn
from
the
thought
that
Sondra
alone
,
of
all
the
better
people
of
Lycurgus
,
had
been
friendly
to
him
,
but
would
sharpen
the
point
of
this
development
for
Gilbert
,
if
not
for
Bella
and
the
other
members
of
the
Griffiths
family
.
And
in
accordance
with
this
plan
,
so
it
was
done
.
And
so
it
was
that
Clyde
,
returning
from
the
factory
one
early
December
evening
about
two
weeks
after
his
encounter
with
Sondra
,
was
surprised
by
the
sight
of
a
cream-colored
note
leaning
against
the
mirror
of
his
dresser
.
It
was
addressed
in
a
large
,
scrawly
and
unfamiliar
hand
.
He
picked
it
up
and
turned
it
over
without
being
able
in
any
way
to
fix
upon
the
source
.
On
the
back
were
the
initials
B.
T.
or
J.
T.
,
he
could
not
decide
which
,
so
elaborately
intertwined
was
the
engraved
penmanship
.
