xpense, they played a mean trick on me. They took me into
a big building a little further down the street, down a long hall, and
left me sitting on a seat outside what I supposed was the registrar's
office. They said I must wait there and the registrar's clerk would come
out and conduct me to the registrar. They said that it was against the
rules to walk into the office and that it was the business of the clerk
to come out every half hour and conduct any one who was waiting into the
registrar's private office.

"Well, I sat there and sat there. It made me think of when I was a
kiddie and used to watch the cuckoo clock to see the bird come out. But
there wasn't even a bird came out of that door," continued Elfreda
gloomily. "People passed up and down the hall, and every once in a while
a man would walk right into the place without knocking, or seeing the
clerk, or anything else.

"After I had sat there for at least two hours, I made up my mind to go
in even if I were ordered out the next minute. I marched up to the door
and opened it and walked into the office. There was no one in sight but
a young woman who was putting on her hat. 'Where's the registrar?' I
asked. 'He hasn't been here to-day,' she said. 'I thought the registrar
was a woman,' I said. She seemed surprised at that and asked what made
me think so. I said that two of the students had told me so. Then she
looked at me in the queerest way and began to smile. 'Do you want to see
the registrar of Overton College?' she asked. 'Of course I do,' I said,
for I began to suspect that something was wrong. Then she stopped
smiling and said it was too bad, but whoever had sent me there had
played a trick on me and brought me to the office of the Register of
Deeds. Instead of Overton Hall I was in the county court house. Now can
you beat it?" finished Elfreda slangily.

"I should say not," cried Grace indignantly. "I think it was
contemptible in them to accept your hospitality and then treat you in
that fashion. No really nice girl would do any such thing, even in fun."

"I should say not," sympathized Miriam, forgetting that she did not
yearn for J. Elfreda as a roommate. "What did you do after you
discovered your mistake?"

"I left the Register's office, his deeds, and all the rest of that
building in pretty short order," continued Elfreda. "When I reached the
street I went straight back to the station and hired a carriage to take
me to Ralston House. Mrs. Arnold g