Betty Wales, Sophomore

floor of her new room at the Belden House, and looked

y on a pile of pillows, "anyhow the things are all out of the trunks and

t,-that left just about two hours before

n," san

saucers, knocked down a Japanese screen-which fortunately landed against

eanwhile setting up the screen again, and moving trunk-trays

ith amusement. "Quite settled compared to this, I shou

urned Betty easily. "I hate to keep stopping to fish some

eanor. "Did you hav

an swim like a fish, E

r much, do you? But you

ve a good

re long to see Jim and me, and he and Jim are coming on togethe

or and Rachel and Katherine appeared. Then there was more leaping over teacups, more ecsta

anded Rachel, when e

explained Betty. "You see she lives so nea

ghed Katherine. "There's no room for

is isn't half as big as ours at Mrs. Chapin's. And see the closet!" She picked her way across the room, and thre

lothes," suggested K

Betty, with finality, closing the door on the subjec

ear?" said Katherine. "Let me see. You and Hel

"Her steamer isn't due

she'd been in Ir

hear her tell abou

, intent on her census, "and you're

ed to be here, of course, but Miss Stuart would

outside the gate. It's a dear, quaint place, and delightfully quiet. Of course

ts and shrieks and bangs and more shrieks, and then the din died away suddenly in

t place, where the rest of us can tak

f, and I never heard anything like the racket there was, wh

have been on hand

alone," jeered Katherine, "especially after dark. Di

prettily. "Weren't we green little fr

be coming back as sop

residences of the Chapin house girls

" answered Katherine. "She couldn't get in here at

elieve," added Rachel. "And now I, for

d, she was also very happy-too happy to turn her attention again at once to the trying business of getting settled. In spite of the "perfectly lovely" summer at the seashore, she was glad to be back at Harding. She was passionately fond of the life there. There had been only one little blot to mar her perfect enjoyment of freshman year, and that was Eleanor's unexplainable defection. And now Eleanor had come back, fascinating as ever, but wonderfully softened and sweetened

another tap sounded on the door. "Come in," she called eagerly, expecting to see Roberta, or perhaps Alice Waite,

en't here, so I haven't begun living there to any great extent as yet. Don't stop w

ly in the place that

nner disconcerted her. She did not know many upper classmen in the Belden House, and she

d callers all the evening long. Oh, dear! I didn't mean that. I'm trul

winkled. "Which class

promptly. "And you're an u

ger shook

you're not a sophomore-I know all the girls in my class

manded the ne

eve I can explain. You seem too much at home, and to

ers, and some of the German. I think myself that I ought to rank as a graduate student, but it seems there are some little preliminaries in the way of Math, and Latin and Logic that I hav

gasped Betty. "Wh

k," answered the

ooked p

e saying one lives in New York. Everybody-all sorts and cond

epeated Bett

old houses on Washington Square-you know it,-funny, ramshackle old place. Father has afternoons, and mother a

ou learn so ma

e been in Spain a good deal, and once father illustrated a book on Vienna-that was where I learned my German. Let me see-oh, it's French that I haven't accounted for. Well, we have s

do?" inquired Bet

o much, teaching French girls slang, because they never have

now any othe

. I learned one winter in India. I guess I'll telephone her-or no-I'd rather see her august face when I remind h

hat I'm Betty Wales, in the sophomore class, and live in Cl

l decide that I talk too much. Don't put that green vase there. It belongs on the bookcase. It ju

hem, she and Betty had made astonishing progress toward bringing

zard. "Whatever she touches goes right into place. I suppose that's because she

by outsiders to be kept to the letter on the campus. However, it wasn't the matron, but only Nita Reese, who had a single room on the fourth floo

Don't put that g

ained Nita, who, like Betty, had spent her freshman yea

oing over here?" demand

ved away from

nely and came over to see me. They say their matron won't miss them the first night

eir owners appeared to be in no haste about unpacking; the serious business of the hour was conversation. They stopped to talk with their neighbors to greet newcomers, to help or hinder other workers with questions and suggestions. Betty and Nita felt

, just come on the

th of the matr

cheer you up,

her had thoughtfully provided was nearly empty, "wouldn't it be dreadful

what you have to," re

announced Babbie, somewhat irrelevantly. "I'm g

y's first eveni