Betty Wales, Sophomore

en chosen, but every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon l9-'s last year's "regulars" and "subs" met in t

taken in the second half, was not allowed to risk another such injury; and one or two other players had lost interest in basket-ball and were devoting their energies to somet

he used to put on her gym. suit and go over to watch the teams. And if some player failed to appear or was late in arriving, T. Reed or Betty would suggest calling Helen down to take the absentee's place. Helen was painfully awkward and no

on the gym. floor, resting between the halves, "I believe, if you'd begun last

no!" she said. "But I love to play with y

it the most exciting thing? And this year it will be our turn to win. Bob Parker has

on the sub-team,

its team," returned Betty gaily. "You haven't forgott

hat song. She had written another little verse for her theme class, and that very morning it had come

opened, and Lucy Merrifield,

the group of sprawling f

see us do up the regular

captained

to see you do any such unbecoming thing. I cam

crambling upright and brushi

hat you've been appoi

ntil Christy Mason get

back?" repeated Bet

to the children. She'll be away a month anyhow and perhaps all this term. And as there are a lot of impo

be much help," beg

me to the meeting to-morrow at two, an

n Lawrence was a representative from the junior class. To be even a temporary member of so august an assembly seemed to Betty a very great privilege. She was so busy wondering who had chosen her,-whether Lucy or the whole commission,-and

Ferris. "Come and have tea wi

lling back her rain-coat to show her gym. suit

shouldn't mind, but some

minutes to mak

blue gown and a big plumed hat, her cheeks pink with excitement and her hair blown into fas

Ferris. "You're early.

ere she could watch Miss Ferris making tea in a fat little silver pot, and pouring it into cups so thin and beautiful

d Miss Ferris about her appointm

on't be new work for you. You wer

ooked p

lained Miss Ferris. "And judging by the position Miss Watson seem

SAID MISS FERRIS, "TH

it, not I," p

o be successful nowadays, you know, you must not only wor

Ferris. My roommate thinks that I get a great deal too much out of other people. And when I was at home N

fortunately isn't a desert island,-come about by cooperation," she said. "Be independent; think fo

too long," she said, "but I always do that when I come to see you. I shall tell my room

're here for-to learn to argue and to dress in a hurry and to work

stood about in the halls and parlors waiting for Mrs. Cass, the matron, to lead them i

e sort of thing they have away out west, where laborers are scarce and

raskan's roommate, who was from Boston. "I think that Mary has invented

deline Ayres, patting her dim

s giving for her mother," announce

ls what it is, though," s

ams. "Mary came in while

d anything about ex

t Mary, being a very busy person, had a habit of putting aw

to-day she found some money that she'd put in her collar-case for safe-keeping and forgotten about; so she got out the bill to pay it, and it turned out to be a letter from

s it?" dema

s nothing to do but wait for eight o'clock, the hour which Mary had mentioned in her invitat

rom taking dinner with

ansom i

st wide enough to admit one girl at a time she disclosed a room absolut

ent in first. "What am I runni

ake," added Katherine. "I f

to meet my mother,"

the shadows. "Wouldn't you better tur

assure you, but if you insist on seeing them you can all go across t

she looked so young that Katherine gravely asked Mary if she was quite sure she wasn't palming off a sister on them instead of a mother. She entered into all the absurdities of t

"you see I had a hair-raising because you tell ghost stories so well. Why, ever since I read your letter I've been planning how

's a letter for Frances West over on the zoology bulleti

as sticks her head inside Science Hall. She thinks it's wrong

omebody who didn't know any better s

ped it herself," sugg

she did, she hasn't read it. I n

y's, saying that her mother is

e her mother wouldn't direct a letter

led Mary Brooks to Dorot

urkish lantern, talking

your chief over on the

stop in and g

West is known in college and as many juniors and seniors as look a

it to her, Laurie?"

siness,' and I want to get the psychology right. Oh, Mrs. Brooks," she called, getting up and going over to the divan, "did you know that Mary had set a fashion up here? E

ed in making your friends uncomfortable. I hope F

a bill for printer's ink or paper, or whatever they buy for the 'Argus.

," said

bell clanged suggestively in the corridors,

hink you have enough to worry about and be frightened over, without getting up a lot of extra things on purpose.

ere ever worried or frighten

he hair-raising? I suppose," went on Betty, when Helen did not answer, "I suppose you want to ask why I don't sit up to study? But if I did I should be breaking a rule, and beside

cide, isn't it, Helen? And so often you can't tell which one is best- like

o have delivered the

etty. "And probably it was only an adver