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‘beaten us? If you will agree to it I will
give Lee Morris the permit. Perhaps it
will help him to get better.” .

- At first some demurred. It is difficult
‘to detach a boy from a, procession. And
then it was decidedly at variance with
their knowledge of history for a Grant
to surrender to a Lee. But Howard
pleaded well, and the pathetic, white face
in the schoolroom was another power-
ful argument.

Lee Morris was not greatly injured
after all, and was on his feet when How-
ard offered him the permit.

“We don’t like the way we won it,”
Howard Grant said, “and we are willing
to give it up. We are only visitors here,
and we think you have a better right in
the parade than we have.”

Lee’s face was flushed, and he took
the hand that offered the coveted permit.