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It happened to be Saturday afternoon, and a few miles away two of the leading clubs in the first division of the League were meeting to decide which of them should go into the next round of the Association cup. There was not a man in the Keep House who was not anxious to be present, and perhaps half a dozen of them were well enough to go. They were as anxious to see the match as if they had been a lot of boys, and they had been talking about it wistfully for the last few days.
At first it had not occurred to either Dorothy or Nettie that it was in their power to give Ginger and some of the other convalescents a real treat. Then the girls suddenly discovered that a chance had come to do so.