hen came the temptation to
publish that 'Larry, the Locksmith' story, and you know the rest.

"Elfreda Briggs was the one who brought me to my first realization of
college spirit. She had been watching me all year and discovered that I
was unhappy. She marched into my room one night and found me crying.
When she left me I was happier than I had been for months. She had shown
me the way to atone for some of the mischief I had made. It was she who
gave me the idea for the play. I had begun a play, then had destroyed
it, resolving to have nothing more to do with the contest. After Elfreda
and I had our talk I began again and I wrote 'Loyalheart.' After the
Famous Fiction Dance Elfreda came to me again. She was determined to
help me."

Grace's face grew radiant when Kathleen told of Elfreda's part in the
affair. A great wave of love and tenderness for the one-time stout girl,
who had begun her college life at such a disadvantage, swept over her.
"Dear old J. Elfreda," she murmured. "What a wonder she is!"

"But there is one thing I haven't yet told you," said Kathleen. "You are
to create the role of 'Loyalheart' in my play. You mustn't refuse. It
was written for you, and no one else could possibly play it. Elfreda is
going to arrange that part of it with the play committee. Please don't
refuse. If you only knew how much it means to me." Kathleen's eyes were
fixed appealingly upon Grace.

"I won't refuse," was Grace's gentle answer. "I'll do it just to please
you and to cement our life-long friendship." The two girls had risen
now, and stood facing each other. Then their hands met in a silent
pledge of friendship that was to prove faithful to the end.

* * * * *

Loyalheart stepped into life on the fifth Friday evening after Easter
and for two hours and a half her adoring audience of Overton students
hung on her slightest word or gesture. From the moment in which
Loyalheart left Haven Home on her Four Years' Pilgrimage she ceased to
exist as Grace Harlowe, merging her personality entirely in that of the
beautiful allegorical character she was portraying.

The play itself was in four acts, each representing one of the four
college years. Written in the form of an allegory, it partook of the
nature of a morality play and told the story of Loyalheart's eventful
pilgrimage through the Land of College, accompanied by her faithful
friends, Honor, Forbearance, Silence and Good Humor. Her heroic