The Adventure Girls at Happiness House

h it all. Carol and Janet were in the same dormitory building as Valerie and Madge. Consequently their close friendship was by no means interrupted. Gale and Phyllis went t

not a soul in the class who did not know all about her. Her roommate was a quiet, sweet youn

ich she came. Nevertheless, Janet and Ricky could be seen with heads close toge

in, she told herself. It seemed that girls from the sorority house had seen her. The upper classmen looked with the utmost distaste upon such familiarity. They saw to it that Gale should regret such friendliness with the head of the ins

n did smile and stop to talk with Gale when such occasions presented themselves. She was one of the girls who was voluble in her protestations against the new Dean. She had been favored and especially privileged the two terms before. Now that there was

ppease their sorority sisters, but from the minute Marcia Marlette appeared on the campus things were different. Gale could b

linging her books onto her desk, "I won't

't do that, Gale. We've got to

and glared at the ceiling. "But I will blow up and e

she been d

with me-making nasty remarks about the Dean all the wh

ed, sticking her head in at the o

anything?" add

d. "I am boiling over

Phyllis murmured. "Girls, you see b

invited, settling herself

" Gloria asked

mn air. "That awful Junior has been pestering me again. I supp

rd what you said," a v

up. Marcia Marlette was leaning out her wind

ke to say it directly

courage and her anger

nswered firmly. "I said you we

face was mo

classmen-especially sorority sisters. Rebelli

cried indignantly. "I didn't

t and confronted the others. She strode to the door, but Phyl

are you

g to tell her a few things! Things I've been achi

ain. I never saw you so fiery. I don't know what Marcia might have done or said, but I'll wager it was o

rcia," Ric

's arrival Gale could have told Phyllis she wouldn't like her. Before Marcia ever said a word to her, Gale felt resentment burning within her. She didn't know why. Then, when Marcia started to annoy her and Phyllis, Gale more than ever disliked the Junior. So far she had been successful in hiding it. She avoided all possible contact with Marcia, but after all they were bound to meet sometimes. They sat at the same ta

ey?" Gloria asked, idly thu

declared, "are

s said. "How a

tomorrow afternoon." With difficulty G

nutes before dinner,"

upright. "Shall we g

tairs now Marcia would most likely be there. It would be

vaguely, "I want to

ter hurry,"

re moving toward the dining room. Phyllis looked hastily around for Marcia. She was not in sight. W

e murmured to the gi

at at the West Campus Do

or Marcia to resent her. Last year Marcia had been close to the old Dean. Marcia had had special privileges. She had not been tied to the college grounds to observe the rules as the other girls had. But now Dean Travis did not grant Marcia those special privileges. Phyllis believed that was all that stood betw

Marcia would not possibly meet toni

"But you really shouldn't have worried, Phyl. I wo

w did you know what I was

are an open book

e is me! Nothing is

ts, one to Miss Relso, who was still taking an interest in their school life, and one to Brent Stockton. The one to Brent was the longest and well it sho

struggled into her pajamas. "Doesn't that ma

"I even sent him a picture

othering a yawn in the pillow,

hasn't rung yet,"

y," Phyllis informed her

eep," Gal

th the peace of an autumn night. The sorority house was dark. It was as if another world of glorious peace and accord had opened where previously had

ogether their voices made a clatter that disturbed sleepers all over the building. Phyllis dashed wildly about, seeking the cause of the clatter. She found an alarm clock under the bed, whose bell was the cause of the initial outburst. She tu

r of the floor and looked

ing," Phyl

e conceded laughingly. "I w

ha

ould not hear her above the clatter. It seemed a million bells were rin

and the girls climbed back into bed. But they were no sooner s

fire alarm,"

Her search disclosed a big alarm clock

t it off?" she

g, but the most effective was stuffing the clock under

ry slowly and carefully stuffed cotton in her ears. "I am going to sl

ht?" Ricky demanded the next morning whe

scare us," Phyllis explained, crawling from unde

asked, motioning to the array of

into the hall. On it she set all the clocks. In front of them she p

ly to the chair when they return

mpty. The clock