The Mystery of Arnold Hall

as part of the Alley Gang was walking back to th

replie

ied Patrici

oad grin, "Katharine and Prof

ndian blood in his veins. A melodious voice with a southern accent completed an ensemble that had proved most intriguing to the women of Granard. All the girls smiled upon him, and the registration in History V was unusually heavy that term. That he was girl-shy had been the con

d pick a roughneck like Katharine?" commented Lucile d

ted Hazel, quick to come to

promptly; "but you can't deny that the

terrupted Betty; "remember your

ne, returning to the original topic of conve

round-faced little girl beside her. For several weeks now, Patricia had

asked Hazel curiously, t

s," was the

?" inquir

Miller would get a chance to

sted her compa

I felt," asserted Frances;

ant Jack Dunn to be taken out of the li

together, and Joe's got an awful case on Tut. When football practice st

Jack got on the regulars and T

e; "but I don't fall for him the way the rest of you

ply. "He's been the absolute idol of this c

s a sound of running footsteps behind them, and C

think?" she c

rted Lucile crisply. "

d Jane quickly, trying to cover Lucile's u

th whom I am going to

said Frances, "before

ked me in Physics La

tty in puzzled tones. "How

red late, and is a special stude

o;

all this term?" deman

e from home than she is in Granard student

ontradicted B

oss Betty's shoulder. "If I had a devoted boy friend who wrote me letters every other day

atricia: "Wonder how Lucile likes

she considered him her special proper

hat the meeting at 'Hill Top' on the day we arrived was not all cha

brary, and Pat reluctan

as deserting them. "Something I've got to look up. See you later." Waving her ha

ary information, she was just approaching the outside doorway when Professor Donnell's class came out of its room, right behind her. Patricia was rather shy with strangers, and hurried a bit to keep well ahead of the men going down the steps. In her haste, she failed

asked, raising Pa

e eyes, bent anxiously upon her, and s

still carefully holding her by the arm as

ack with a rush, and flushed her face to a scarlet which matched the little hat wh

ou," she

hat with shaking fingers. Then an awful thought occurred to her. Maybe these men thought the same thing! Peop

fall," she said, trying to laugh

the steps," explained her rescuer, b

m a broad, very white forehead. The hands on her arm were shapely,

he continued, motioning his companions per

you further," protested Patri

as they started across the campus. "Let's sit down over there a while," he added, as they

until thr

soon as they were seated. "I don't

my name, by the way,

simply as if his name were not known

not very observing

hy

me Shakespeare class, and

'm down in the front of the room, and you

rsonal bits of information, and Jack left Patricia at the do

ld of him?" whispered Jane excit

Patricia, as Professor Yate

he rest of the crowd; so, as they walked slowly across the cam

irl!" sighed Jane

bones?" inquired

nion, with exaggerated emphasis. "B

the life out of me," commente

hing about it, then.

ome of them sa

know how you met him, it will giv

ad stepped up to her just as she was following Jane and Anne to the post office after dinner. The girls obligingly hurried on and lef

h me," began Jack. "He's on at the Plaza, and

wly; "but-yes, I'll go. I'm pretty sure Jane wi

" repeated Jack

e Arnold Hall customs and rules, and answered his questi

the girls here; for I came only this yea

," interrupted Patric

then, both strangers in a

n't m

slowly back to College Hill, chatting

sked Patricia, as the

and not supposed to be out too late;

you're in classes all morning as well as part of t

ch time, and I've just

order to keep

enough off to send me to Granard himself; and, well, when you're indebt

'm in the same position myself,

ned Jack. "Then yo

low voice behind them, and th

ly, while Patricia murmured a res

an as he turned and went u

ow," replie

w," observed Jack, as th

don't

very well, but I don't trust him. Comes out and sits on the side lines to

ced to him at Mrs. Brock's

Mrs.

their contact with the ecce

ory. "You'd better not have anything to do with her. Say,

ibed her as we

aculated the boy, w

inquired the girl, looking at

tle woman ahead of me drop a small bag. Apparently, she didn't notice her loss; for she kept right on. I picked up the p

cia. "Those eyes fasten themsel

ink anybody was, any more.' It made me mad, so I merely said: 'That is one of the things upon which I prid

agreed Patricia. "I think I'd better go i

g a hand on her arm. "You're going to

I are going to dri

to be where you can get a good view, since

a gratefully, as she started

ss Friday," called Jack, just as Norm

of a thick clump of shrubbery near the dormitory, and, keeping well in the h