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CHAPTER VIII
THE COMMITTEE IN SESSION
Sixty-two dollars and sixty-five cents," announced
Louise Brent disconsolately. "I
don't believe we'll ever get enough!"
"I wonder who gave the five cents," murmured Lanny.
The Twenty-fifth of October Fund Committee was assembled on the side porch at Brentwood, facing a problem.
"We need about twenty-eight dollars more, don't we?" asked Gordon. Louise nodded.
"Unless we left off the filing-cabinet," she said.
"How much less would that make it?"
"We figured the cabinet at eighteen dollars. Maybe it would be less, though."
"Eighteen," reminded Morris, "was before we
