d physical beauty, she built her hopes on attracting admiration by
her daring personality. During her freshman year at Hamilton she had
acquired a certain kind of popularity by her high-handed methods.
Possessed of an immense fortune, and in her own right, she had acquired
tremendous power over her particular clique by reason of her money.
Leslie never "went broke." The majority of the Sans received liberal
allowances from home and spent them even more liberally. Leslie was a
good port in time of storm--when she chose to be. Once under obligation
to her, she was quite likely, if crossed, to let her debtor feel the
weight of her displeasure.

"Did that Miss Dean have anything to say about us?" Leslie casually
inquired. Finding herself admired, she preferred to cultivate her new
acquaintance rather than devote her attention to those of her class who
had come down to the train.

"She said--let me see." Miss Walbert knitted her light eyebrows in an
elaborate effort at recollection. "She said she had never met any of
you girls and she didn't care for an acquaintance with you. I had
asked who you were because I wanted so much to know you. I recognized
you girls at once as my kind. Just to see your dandy crowd coming along
made me homesick for dear old Welden. I palled with a crowd like that at
prep."

"Our little angel, Miss Bean,--I always call her Bean instead of
Dean,--doesn't care what she does with the truth," sneered Leslie. "Last
fall we came down to the train to meet her crowd. We knew they were
greenies from a little one-horse town called Sanford. They were to be at
the same campus house as we. A few of us thought we would try to help
them. We took my friend, Miss Weyman's, car and went to the station.
Missed 'em by about two minutes. They hired a taxi. We felt mortified
and went around to this Miss Dean's room to apologize. We were almost
frost-bitten. They were so rude I felt ashamed for them. Afterward they
started a lot of lies about us that made trouble for us at the Hall."

"My goodness!" fluttered Miss Walbert. "I had a narrow escape, didn't I?
I will take pains to steer clear of that whole crowd. I don't know
whether I would recognize most of them if I happened to meet them on the
campus. I would certainly know Miss Dean."

"Where are you going to live?" Leslie dropped back into her usual
indifferent drawl.

"Alston Terrace. I have an exam. in math. to try. I'm pretty sure of
staying, though. Is Alston