"You might have seen he was dreadfully shy, and you ought to have
left him alone. And now for my great idea. I will take you both into
my confidence. I am going to drive Mrs. Macgregor to the match to-
morrow."

"Splendid!" exclaimed Betty. "And I'll go with you. But how can you
persuade her?"

"I have thought about that," said Helen. "We'll ask Mr. Brown to
drive around with us a little before, and I'm sure she will go."

"Will you allow me to join the party?" humbly asked Lloyd, "or is
there someone else?"

"Oh," said Betty, "we are sure to need somebody, and you will do as
well as any other."

In obedience to an invitation conveyed by Lloyd, Brown appeared at
the Fairbanks house in the early morning. Eagerly the young ladies
propounded their plan. At once Brown entered heartily into it, and
calling with them in the afternoon persuaded the old lady that she
ought to attend the great match, emphasising especially the fact
that Shock would be delighted to see her there, and would be
stimulated to do his very best by her presence.

"It will likely be his last game, too," urged Brown.

This finally decided the matter, and so it turned out that perhaps
the most enthusiastic, and certainly the most picturesque, of all
the groups that surrounded the campus next day was that which filled