confided Emma. "I
never dreamed that Kathleen West entertained any such feeling for Grace,
and I don't imagine any one else did, either. When is the honor prize to
be presented to her?"

"On the night of the play. Now that it is all settled, the play
committee had better bestir themselves."

"You are on the play committee, aren't you?" asked Emma innocently.

"You needn't remind me of it," laughed Miriam. "I hadn't forgotten it,
and it is plain to be seen that you hadn't. Elfreda, Anne and Ruth
Denton are on it, too. Here comes Elfreda, surrounded by an admiring
throng. Genius will out. I knew she would do something extraordinarily
clever before she wound up her college career."

"We can't find Kathleen West!" exclaimed Elfreda. "She slipped out of
the gymnasium so quietly that no one realized she had gone. We are going
over to Wayne Hall after her."

"Where is Grace?" asked Miriam irrelevantly.

Elfreda made a quick, comprehensive survey of the various groups of
girls. "Why, I don't see her. She was here----" Something in Miriam's
expression caused her to eye her roommate sharply. Miriam shook her head
almost imperceptibly.

"That's so," returned Elfreda in a low tone. "You never forget anything,
do you, Miriam? I will tell the girls to postpone rushing Kathleen until
to-night." Turning to the crowd of girls, who had been too busy talking
to notice what had passed between her and Miriam, Elfreda said easily:
"Suppose we wait until this evening after dinner, girls. Meet me at the
corner below Wayne Hall at half-past seven o'clock and we will call on
Kathleen and Grace. Miriam will engage to keep them in the house and
we'll have ice cream and cake afterward."

Elfreda's suggestion was well received, and solemnly winking at Miriam,
she pursued her triumphal journey across the campus, quite surrounded by
her admiring bodyguard.

But while her friends were discussing the outcome of the play, Kathleen
West, J. Elfreda and Grace, the last named young woman was speeding
across the campus toward Wayne Hall. As she was about to return to her
place among her friends, after making her speech, her alert eyes had
seen a small, familiar figure edge toward the side door of the
gymnasium, then disappear. Grace surmised that Kathleen had gone
directly to Wayne Hall, and without hesitating she hurried after her.
But another person had also marked Kathleen's flight, for as Grace ran
up the steps of the hall she heard a rush of