Marjorie Dean College Junior

kimono-clad arms and clasped them behind her head. Lounging opposite her, in a deep, Sleepy-

the way we were treated last year after that basket-ball affair was simply outrageous. I don't

nded upon from the first. Bess Walbert stood by us, of course. So

h Elizabeth Walbert. "You did enough for her. She certainly will not win the soph presidency, no matter how much

on Bess Walbert's name?" Leslie scowled her impatience. "You wouldn't give that p

I am not going to quarrel with you, Leslie, about her." Natalie modified her tone. "She isn't worth

t sounds like Bean and her crowd." Displeased with Natalie for decrying Elizabeth Walbert, Le

to turn her down for any reason, she wouldn't care what she said about you on the campus. I have watched her a good deal, Les. She's like this. She wi

square enough with

. "She knows you are at the head of the Sans and she has taken preci

bout Lola Elster. I've never had any rows wi

rateful, though. She has more honor in a minute than Bess will ever have. She isn't a talker or a mischief-

like Lola?" Leslie smi

see what her position here at Hamilton is going to be. I tell you she isn't well liked. You can keep her at arm's length, if you

pelled, we have managed by sheer good luck to slide from under. If we hadn't worked like sixty last spring term to make up f

ou may be right about keeping Bess in her place." Natalie's e

doesn't know anything about that hazing business? She made a remark to H

worried. "I must pump her and find out what she knows. If she does know of it, then we have a traitor in the camp. Mark me, I'll throw any

ss," shrugged Natalie. "

ck we put over on Trotty Remson. I am always afraid that Laura will flivver someday and the whole thing will come to light. If it happens after I leave Hamilton, I don't care. All I care about is getting through. If I k

er do if you flunked

That part of it wouldn't feaze me. But my father is the only person

them. Her hands took hold on the chair arms with a grip which revealed

ting Dulcie Vale's invitation to journey from New York City to Hamilton in the Vales' private car, as they had done the three previous years. Since the hazing party on St. Valentine's night, Leslie and Dulcie had not been on specially good terms. Leslie was still peeved with Dulcie for not having locked the back door of the un

hind her back. "That music upset me, I guess. I wonder who the singers were. Serenading Bean and her gang. Humph! Nobody ever seren

ndition of 'How Fair Art Thou.'" Fond of music, Natalie was forced to admit the high quality of the per

ope Laura got out of here without being seen." Leslie went back to the subject still uppermost in her mind. "It was risking something to send for her to come ov

ticed it when I went out in the hall before she left to see if the coast was clear. Not more than half the girls who belong here are ba

stand by us as long as she is paid for it. Besides, she would get into more trouble than we if the truth were known. That's where we have the advantage of her. She has to protect herself as well as us. What I h

ad determined. She would strain a point to be first with Leslie during their senior year. She had importuned Leslie to visit her for the purpose of regaining her ol

st plan is to go on as we did last spring. If I see a good opportunity to bother Bean and her devoted beanstalks, I shall no

with a positive pucker of her small mouth. "Think of the way we rushed the gree

that class than eligibles. That's why we lost. I am all done with that sort of thing. If I can't be as popular as Bean," Leslie's intonation was bitterly sarcastic, "I can be a good deal more exclusive. As it is, I expect to

at this. It was so exac

laugh. It was a sore cross to her that after three years of the hardest striving she had not attaine

e. Had good humor radiated her peculiarly rugged features she would have been that rarity, an ugly beauty. Due to her proficiency at golf and tennis, she was of most s