's sister, died, and poor Laura had to live alone with her
father in a great big country house. Finally, she grew so tired of it
she asked him to send her to college. She had always had a tutor, so she
was ready for the entrance examinations, but she had never associated
with other girls and didn't know much about them. I can't feel sorry
enough for calling her names and imitating her. We had a long talk at
Martell's the other night and I am going to be her knight errant from
now on."

"You found the rainbow side of your sophomore year in helping some one
else, didn't you, Elfreda?"

"I don't know what you are talking about," rejoined Elfreda bluntly.

"I know you don't," laughed Grace. "It was nothing much. Last year at
this time Anne and I were lamenting because we couldn't be freshmen all
over again, and Anne said that being a sophomore was sure to have its
rainbow side."

"It has been the nicest year of my life," said Elfreda earnestly. "If
being a junior is any nicer than being a sophomore--well--you will have
to show me. There, I've ended by using slang. But I've found my rainbow
side in another way, too."

"Name it," challenged Miriam mischievously.

"By losing twenty pounds," announced Elfreda, with proud triumph. "I
weigh one hundred and forty pounds now, and next fall you will see me on
the team, or it won't be my fault."

"I hope I shall have time for basketball," said Grace. "There will be so
many other things. Remember, girls, if during vacation you think of any
good plan for the Semper Fidelis Club to make money, make a note of it.
Just because we have money in our treasury, we mustn't become lazy. We
will find plenty of uses for every cent we can earn. There are dozens of
girls struggling through Overton who need help."

"You never told us to what girls you and Arline played Santa Claus last
winter, Grace," said Elfreda reproachfully.

"And I never will," laughed Grace, "and Arline won't tell, either."

"I know something, too," declared Elfreda, "but I'm not as stingy as
Grace. I know who poked that envelope with the ten dollars in it under
Grace's door."

"Who?" came simultaneously from the three girls.

"Mildred Taylor," replied Elfreda. "I saw her do it. I was just coming
down the hall that night as she slipped it under the door and ran away.
I never told any one, because I could see she didn't want any one to
know she did it."

"Elfreda always sees more than appears on the surface," co