to their room shortly before ten o'clock. Having left the now almost cheerful Elfreda to the good-natured ministratio

hung up her wraps, took down her ki

d Grace, and briefly recounted wh

to make a fuss over her,

er do to straighten out this trouble for Elfreda," said Grace anxiously. "I felt glad when I came to Over

see Miss Ashe first," agree

ll go. Tell me about your

room over to suit her needs is really wonderful. She has one corner of it curtained off for her kitchen and has a cupboard for her dishes, what there are of them. She cooks her meals over a little two-burner gas s

minute to play. I don't see how she manages to do all that wo

agine she wouldn't accept help. She strikes me as being one of the

ace said speculatively, "and

confessed Anne. "The work I did on the stage wasn't work at all, it w

worked to win the scho

lied Anne, shaking her head depre

hard you might have had to work if you hadn't be

idiculous," protested

ttle Miss Nonentity, let's go to bed or I won't get up early enou

in the house and write letters. I've owed David a lette

write first, you

rry them up. Let's go down to that little stationer's shop to-morrow and see w

appened at home, a subject of which they n

on the chiffonier she exclaimed in dismay. They had overslept, a

r one-piece gown of pink linen, "now I can't go t

shall I take matters into my own hands? It's only four days now until the reception, and those girls may do a great deal of talking during that time." She paused on the steps of Holland House and looked across the campus toward Stuart Hall. "I'm sure I heard some one say that both

big, attractively furnished living room. A moment later there was a scurry of foo

santly. "I shall have to introduce myself. I am Grace Harlowe of the fre

indifferently. "I remember your face, I think. I'm not sure. There was an army of f

gained by beating about the bush she said earnestly, "I hope you will not think me meddlesome or presuming, but I came here this afternoon

ta Wicks, meditatively. "Let

e to college," s

w that?" was the

you walked away from the station with her," Grace said quietly. "

oung women at Grace's indisputable state

to the county court house instead of the registrar's off

well informed as to what took place. It is quite ev

tell my roommate and me, and I regret to say that she also to

rcastic reply. "She should have thought things over b

Miss Briggs has received a note forbidding her attendance at the sophomore reception and advising her to leave Overton. It is signed 'Sophomore Class.' It states her betrayal of two sophomores to the regist

e decidedly impertinent, to say the least," replied Alberta in a tone of suppressed anger. "I cannot understa

Have Failed to Come

phomore class in turn in order to find out the truth. I cannot believe that these girls are

ed Mary Hampton excitedly. She had hit

e, or be sent to coventry either. She has acted hastily, but she will live it down, that is, unless word of it has trave

y she was deeply disappointed at having faile

tood with her hand on the door knob. Grace turned and wa

phomore class?" demanded Alberta, eyeing Grace sharply. There was a fain

o take it to the faculty, and that is not to be thought of. I

of this. A number of sophomores, with a view to the good of the college, decided themselves to be justified in sending the letter to Miss B

reat?" asked

d her shoulders in ans

you please," remarked

I know too, just how many sophomores were concerned in the writing of the letter, and a

e house, leaving behind her two discomfit

ord and put the matter before the class?"

play. She only does it as a pose. She imagines, I suppose that it will attract the attention of the upper class girls. I should like to teach her a lesson in