play to Roberta Fish’s side.
“My goodness!” whispered Bobby Hargrew, as they ran off the field at the end of the half. “I hope that’s taught Hester a lesson. And this is once when we need Hester Grimes badly.”
“I should say we did,” panted Laura.
“We’ve got to play up some to win back that point we lost, let alone beating them,” cried Jess Morse.
Nellie Agnew was the first to enter the dressing room assigned to the Central High girls. She looked around the empty room and gasped.
“What’s the matter, Nell?” cried Bobby, crowding in.
“Where is she?” demanded the doctor’s daughter.
“Hessie has lit out!” shouted Bobby, turning back to the captain and her team-mates.
“She’s got mad and gone home!” declared Jess Morse. “Her hat and coat are gone.”
“Now what will we do?” cried Dorothy Lockwood.
And the question was echoed from all sides. For without Hester it did not seem possible that the Central High team could hold its own with its opponents.
CHAPTER VII – THE SECOND HALF
The dressing room buzzed like an angry beehive for a minute. It was Laura Belding, captain of the team, who finally said:
“Hester surely can’t have deserted us in this way. She knows that Roberta is not even familiar with our secret signals.”
“She’s gone, just the same,” said her chum, Jess. “That’s how mean Hester Grimes is.”
“Well, I declare! I don’t know that I blame her,” cried Lily Pendleton.
“You don’t blame her?” repeated Nellie. “I don’t believe you’d blame Hester no matter what she did.”
“She hasn’t done anything,” returned Lily, sullenly.
“How about the gym. business – ”
Bobby Hargrew began it, but Laura shut her off by a prompt palm laid across her mouth.
“You be still, Bobby!” commanded Nellie Agnew.
“You’re all just as unfair to Hessie as you can be,” said Lily with some spirit. “And now this woman from West High had to pick on her – ”
“Don’t talk so foolishly, Lil,” said Dora Lockwood. “You know very well that Hester has been warned dozens of times not to talk back to the referee. Mrs. Case warns her almost every practice game about something. And now she has got taken up short. If it wasn’t for what it means to us all in this particular game, I wouldn’t care if she never played with us.”
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