Ruth Fielding At College; or, The Missing Examination Papers

city of some thirty or forty thousand inhabitants. The people, not alone in the city but in the s

ollege on the noon train. Of course, the chums knew none of their fellow pupils by name

ls briskly getting aboard the buses. As they saw other girls do, the two chums from Chesl

elen in Ruth's ear. "It's fine! I'm sure we sh

ing, "if we expect to keep up with them. T

her friend. "They all l

uth and Helen chanced to get into a seat with two of the seniors, who see

u not-you and your friend?" as

l of the Red Mill, feel

en smiled qui

my senior year. I am glad to be th

g her self-possession. Then she told Miss

rawn your room nu

aid. "We are to be in Dare Hall

wo friends enter together. I am at Hoskin Hall myself. I shall be

d again, and Helen fo

Hoskin Hall, and all the

ch class in all four of the dorm

us to learn," sighed Ruth. "It is

boarding school?" asked

Briarwood Hall," He

sharply at Ruth again. "Did you

Miss D

e play to help build a dormitory for your sch

len, teasingly, "see w

Ruth said, laughing. "Let me tell you, Miss Dexter, we

lmates could not have written a scenario which would

Helen, warmly. "And it w

" agreed Miss Dexter. "

Purvis. The two entering freshmen felt flattered-how could they help it? They ha

were beautiful homes in the suburbs of Greenburg. And after they were passed, there were lovely fields and groves on either han

But only one private equipage passed them on the ride to Ardmore. That car came along, goin

r-a girl; and she was packed around w

ss there goes one of the real fancy girls

is craned their necks to see the car and th

s Dexter said briskly.

n, she isn't goin

d goes nowhere else. But sh

w that each freshman class is bound to have numbered with i

e into the background. When I was a freshman, there entered a woman over fifty, with

. "What did she want

ily to help, and finally a bedridden sister to care for. So she remained faithful to her home duties, but each year kept up w

me to Ardmore?" asked Ruth, in

p up with the classes. Which was very probably true, you know. Unless one is constantly engaged in hard mental labor,

d by the members of the faculty, and here strung along the left si

len!" cried R

!" respon

between two of the houses. Ruth, too, caught a glimpse of the s

land?" she inquir

rom here. That doesn't

prise: "But, of course,

of the estates surrounding the lake. We go there-ye

asked Ruth, interested.

was quite an important spot last May-wasn't

Purvis. "Don't mention it. Think w

ecame of that girl?" murmur

l in all. Let's not talk of it, Merry. Our sorori

ith any attention. There were other things for her and Helen to be in

of Ardmore did not stand upon the summit of the eminence. Behind and above the big, winged build

ad read about it in the Year Book. From the balcony of this observatory one could see

lake, half-way down the southern slope of College Hill, and which contained the hall and cla

ance," shouted the stage d

while the main thread wound on past the front of the main

shall see you when you come over to the registrar's off

driveway. On their left was the great, sandstone, glass-roofed bulk of the

around to the front of these buildings, and now the private touring car the girls had before noticed, came

if that dressy girl with all the goods

aughed Ruth. "Do you feel as

it. Ruth, what an e-nor-mous place this is! I feel jus

rest to the campus and saw the group of girls upon its broad porch, the stranger at

. Look at the pretty girl with the brown eyes and hair. And the smar

ed off from the girl and the ba

The rooms at Dare are rather small. You could not possibly get all those b

but whether from anger or as a forerunner to tears it would h

, while the latter's friends burst into laught

ckground on the porch, flung herself forward, burst through the gro

th Fielding! Isn't

Phelps and the rest of the girls on the porch gazed and listened in ama

an by coming here and fooling us a

k you have a right to ask,"

t the canned d

said Rebecca Frayne. "But I would like t

ums had hailed gladly as "Jennie Stone." The girl of the Red Mill heard the speech of

and put your card and the number of your room on them. The men will be

" said Rebe

ay for the Briarwood trio to enter the house, and said never