known Leila, Vera, or Helen Trent intimately. Besides, she
loved Wayland Hall and its beautiful premises best of all the campus
houses. It had been Brooke Hamilton's favorite house. Miss Remson had
once told her this. In spite of the difficulties the Lookouts had
encountered at the Hall, Marjorie wondered if, perhaps, they had not
gravitated to it for some beneficient, hidden purpose which only time
might reveal.

CHAPTER X.

WINNING OVER THE FRESHMEN.

As Vera had predicted, Saturday brought to Hamilton a goodly number of
freshmen. Though the faithful reception committee was strictly on duty
that day, the Sans relieved them of a large part of their conscientious
task. They were even more in evidence than on Friday. Greatly to the
surprise of Marjorie and her companions, they laid themselves out to be
democratic. They rushed every young woman who bore freshman earmarks
with a zeal which might have been highly commendable had it been
sincere. Out of the considerable number of freshman arrivals that
Saturday, Marjorie and her committee captured not more than half a
dozen.

"The end of a perfect day, I don't think," grumbled Jerry. The
five-fifty train had come and gone. Though the seven sophomores had all
been on duty, not one of them had a freshman to show for it.

"I'm glad it is over," Marie Peyton said wearily, as the nine disgusted
workers strolled to their waiting cars. "I suppose the Sans thought we
would contest the ground with them. I wouldn't be so ill-bred. Come on
over to the Colonial for dinner. I hereby invite you. We need a little
pleasant recreation to offset this fiasco. Next year, no committee duty
for me. I have had enough of it."

"How many freshies do you think they have captured altogether?" asked
Blanche Scott.

"Oh, sixty or seventy, at least," was Elaine Hunter's guess. "They have
been down to every train for the last two days. Between trains they have
hung around the Ivy and that other tea shop just below it. I don't
recall the name. It opened only last week."

"The Lotus," supplied Jerry. "The funny part of it is the way Miss
Cairns has marched that Miss Walbert around with her. They seem to be
very chummy.

"Leslie Cairns is trying to popularize Miss Walbert with the freshmen.
That is why she has been keeping her on hand at all the trains. I am
sure of it," stated Vera positively. "You just watch and see if I am not
right. The Sans are going to try to run the freshman class