Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College

was deeply attached to the pretty senior, who was the best-liked girl in college, and Grace could not help feeling a trifle proud of Mabel's frank enjoyment of her s

re here. I can touch these two hooks with the ends of my fingers but I can't fasten them. I'll have to ask Mabel to hook me up when I get to Holland House." Giving up in

luster waiting for her was the first thing that attracted h

l have a little while together before

are to help me choose a subject for

ve it because you are company." She gently pushed Grace into a roomy leather-covered armchair. Seating herself opposite Grace, Mabel

ell," replied Grace. "

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t up. Then when Mrs. Elwood came to our rescue, she went to the room that had been assigned to her like a lamb. She felt anything b

" repeated Mabel wonderingly. "

, with absolutely no trace of slang. But she looks as though the whole world were her natural ene

d, "What did the girl do-the one

reshman's name, that she would have to go elsewhere. I knew Mrs. Elwood was out, so I went down to see if there were anything I could do for

next?" asked Ma

without further bickering, Elfreda rose to the occasion and gave her a much-needed lecture. She is very shrewd, I think. She evidently realized she had gone too far. She objected to Miss Taylor because it is her nature to objec

commented Mabel. "What made you go to such pa

the worst possible spirit. But as I said to the girls not long ago, we do not know what li

f the old students toward freshmen. This Miss Atkins is either laboring under the impression that she is an exception to tradition, or else she has no sense of the fitness of things. At first, I am sorry to say, a few of the seniors looked upon her as a joke, but the reaction

t those tables, you know, and we had not reserved ours. Still, there were plenty of other tables at which she might have seated herself. It was rather embarrassing for all of us, but it was worse when she tried to break into the conversation. She insisted on expounding her views on whatever we d

"I never before knew a girl quite like Miss Atkins," she s

e," laughed Mabel. "

gossip," replied Grace quietly.

t, being in the same house with her, you might be able to guide her gently along the beaten trail ma

her," said Grace soberly. "You must know

here any one at Wayne Hall who would be li

er to the sophomore reception. She doesn't wish to do it, I know, although she hasn't said so. Please don't think me conceited, but Elfreda wo

J. Elfreda is the very one to make Miss Atkins wake up to what is expected from her

e'll try. She is not afraid to tackle Miss Atkins, eit

least," declared Mabel jubilantly. "Just in

k before Grace remembered her theme. "What shall I write abo

d promises I'm not able to suggest anything on the spur of the moment," she confessed laughingly. "Why don't you take so

" confessed Grace. "I think I'll write a lit

ed Mabel. "Go ahead with it. You m

write. Mabel busied herself with her own work. At last Grace shoved aside the closely w

ad it?" a

" laughed Grace. "It isn't

examining the various bindings. Her friend's flattering comment, "It's splendid, Grace. I had no i

kable," she contradicted. "It h

incing," a

convincing. Father says I put up the most convincing argument of any one he knows," smiled Grace. "He always d

fter I leave college. I wish you could go home with me

ther wouldn't object, but they miss me so during the year that I feel

th my father. If I can tear myself away from him to make y

ent later, glancing at the little French clock on the chiffonier, "I

ciation of my society is gratifying i

on, stop at the tea shop for supper and come home on the street car, or walk in, if we choose. We might ask Frances and Anne to join us. Miriam and Elfreda are going out for a ride. Miriam has a

ise him. So I ordered him sent home. He is a beauty. Jet black with a three-cornered white spot in the middle of his forehead. He's an Arabian, and F

e, "but Father can't afford it. I've never asked

ou can ride Elixir eve

er coat and settled her hat firmly on her fluffy hair. "Good nig

. I'll tell Frances about it to-morrow, before she has a chance to make any o

ted Grace, with a signifi

," agreed Mab

ect of the eccentric freshman. She found Miriam and the stout girl busily engaged in trying to put together a puzzle that Elfreda had unearthed in the toy depart

ight of Grace. "It is worth having. Ne

kle," smiled Grace. Then she recoun

my powers of persuasion," grumbled El

than if we had no faith