Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College

oom of Wayne Hall where Grace sat at the old-fashioned library ta

d Grace curiously, look

-morrow for a try out in basketball.

girls that we may not be even chosen as subs. Besides, ou

tand out anywhere, Grace, even on a boys' team. I consider

exclaimed Grace. "Who to

n board. I don't see

two freshmen she particularly liked had greeted her as she caught up with them on the way to her Livy class that morning. Grace wondered not a little at this cavalier treatment, but could arrive at

spend Saturday afternoon in moving our furniture about, hoping to gain a few square inches of room space, but we'll have to postpone doing it. We can do it the first rainy S

. Giving herself a little impatient shake she turned her attention to her theme and went on writing rapidly. Half an hour later she folded it neatly, placed it inside one of her books, and went slowly upstairs. She f

end. "Give her some tea this minute, Miriam. She is a working

offered she dropped two lumps of sugar in

er, Grace?" aske

se that's why I haven't anything to say. Did Miriam t

n basketball," amended Elfreda, hastily. "I tell y

of laughter from

ant was that-that it is very difficult to refrain from the use of slang," fin

t see anything to laugh at. Goodness knows I

"We aren't laughing at you. It was the

"I am funny sometimes," she admitted calmly. "E

haven't looked at my history lesson

I stepped on it while going upstairs this morning and tore it just abov

e. "I meant to ask you what happened, but forgot it. Grace,

ined Grace. "J. Elfreda's rema

were now in

one but herself until she came here. Then when you stood up for her, and fixed things so she could go to the reception, she said she held up her right hand and swore to herself that she'

e knows exactly how to proceed with J. Elfreda. I hope there won't be anything more sai

"if I tell you something, will

't promise not to worry until I know that there's nothing to worry over. If

t you the other night at the reception. One of them said that she had been prepared to like

t Grace sat

"I'm sorry I told you. No

in sophomore. Now, that sophomore is either Miss Wicks or Miss Hampton. It looks as though these two girls were not willing to let bygones be bygones. I haven't the slightest idea what they may have said about me, but I am sure they must have circulated some untrut

ou?" pleaded Anne. "It isn't fair that you sh

not be worth while. I have a theory that if one is

we are not putting our best material into it, the shadow is likely to follow us to the very threshold of graduation. It is easy enough to start a rumor but once let it gain headway, it is al

t was several minutes before she found it. If the blue dress could have spoken it would have borne witness to the fa