ts.

"I felt a certain amount of enthusiasm while those upper class girls
were with us, but it has vanished," said Anne. "I am just a professional
staying at a hotel."

"I imagine we won't begin to regard ourselves as being a part of Overton
College until after we have tried our examinations and found an abiding
place in some one of the college houses. I hope we shall be able to get
into a campus house. I have always understood that it is ever so much
nicer to be on the campus. We really should have made arrangements
before-hand, and if we hadn't waited until the last moment to decide to
what college we wished to go we might be cosily settled now."

"Perhaps we are only fulfilling our destiny," smiled Miriam Nesbit.

"Perhaps," agreed Grace in a doubtful tone. "Once we are in our hall or
boarding house I dare say we will shake off this feeling of constraint
and become genuine Overtonites."

"Had we better study to-night?" inquired Grace as they made their way
from the hotel dining room.

"I think it would be a wise proceeding," agreed Miriam. "I want to go
over my French verbs."

"So do I," echoed Grace. "Let's study until ten, and then go straight to
bed."

Ten o'clock stretched well toward eleven before Grace put down her text
book with a tired little sigh and declared herself too sleepy for
further study.

It had been arranged that Miriam should occupy the one room of the suite
while Grace and Anne were to share the other, which had two beds. The
long journey by rail had tired the travelers far more than they would
admit. For a few moments, after retiring, conversation flourished
between the two rooms, then died away in indistinct murmurs, and the
prospective Overton freshmen slept peacefully as though safe in their
Oakdale homes.

CHAPTER IV

MIRIAM'S UNWELCOME SURPRISE

The two days that followed were busy ones for Grace, Anne and Miriam.
The morning after their arrival Mabel Ashe and Frances Marlton appeared
at half-past eight o'clock to conduct them to Overton Hall. There they
registered and were then sent to the room where the examination in
French was to be held. Examinations in the other required subjects
followed in rapid succession and it was Friday before they had settled
themselves in Wayne Hall, the house in which they were to live as
students of Overton College.

Wayne Hall was a substantial four-story brick house, just a block from
the campus. It was looked upon as a strictly f