ir gymnasium suits for street clothing. Outside
Elfreda waited impatiently. "I thought you were never coming," grumbled
the stout girl. Then the unpleasant side of her disposition, which she
had tried to eliminate during her brief friendship with the Oakdale
girls, came to the surface and she said maliciously: "I thought you said
they couldn't play, Virginia. Funny, wasn't it, that you had such a poor
idea of their playing? It was the best game I ever saw, but all the star
playing was on the freshman side."

Virginia's face grew dark. "Stop trying to be sarcastic," she stormed.
"I won't stand it. Do you hear me?"

"Yes, I hear you. I'm not deaf," returned Elfreda dryly. "As for
standing it, you don't have to. Good-bye." Turning sharply about she set
off in the opposite direction, her hands in her pockets, a look of
intense disgust on her round face. "That's the end of that," she
muttered. "I'll move to-morrow. This time it will have to be out of
Wayne Hall, unless----." Then she shook her head almost sadly: "Not
there," she added. "She wouldn't have me for a roommate."

CHAPTER XX

GRACE OVERHEARS SOMETHING INTERESTING

After the famous basketball game a marked change was noticeable in the
attitude of the freshman class toward the Oakdale girls. Grace and
Miriam received numerous invitations to dinners and spreads, in which
Anne was frequently included. Then the girls at Wayne Hall gave a play
in which Anne enacted the role of heroine, stage manager, prompter, and
producer, besides doing all the coaching. After that her star was also
in the ascendant and the little slights and coolnesses that had been
noticeable after Elfreda's ill-timed gossip had done its work, died a
natural death.

The stout girl had lost no time in leaving Virginia. The evening after
her quarrel with the sophomore she had moved her belongings into the
hall the moment she reached her room, then gone downstairs and demanded
another room. As it happened, a freshman whose cousin lived at Morton
House had invited her to share her room. She had departed that very
afternoon and Mrs. Elwood offered Elfreda the now vacant half of her
room. Emma Dean, the tall, near-sighted freshman, occupied the other
half. There was a single room in the house of Mrs. Elwood's sister, but
Elfreda had refused to consider it. Despite the fact that there were now
four young women at Wayne Hall with whom she was not on speaking terms,
she could not bring herself