turned pale. There was another
reason, but she preferred not to give it mind room. She boldly decided
that she would ignore the letter that morning. She would receive a
second summons. It would be easy enough to assert that she had not
received a first. This would give her time to see a certain person and
perhaps gain an inkling of what was in the wind.

An interview with the "certain person" yielded nothing. That person was
unable to throw light upon the reason for the summons. Two days elapsed,
then Leslie received a second communication too austere to be
disregarded. She went to the president's office in considerable
trepidation and emerged from it an hour later, her heavy features set in
anger. Undertaking to assume her usual nonchalant pose, she had been
brought with alarming suddenness to a wholesome respect for Doctor
Matthews' dignity. She had also received a lecture on reckless driving
which she was not likely to forget.

"While it seems unfair to deprive students who are careful drivers of
the privilege of using their automobiles at college, simply because
careless young women like you will not conform to the traffic
conditions, it will come to that." Doctor Matthews was a study in cold
severity as he made this threatening statement. "I shall take drastic
measures if another accident occurs as a result of speeding or reckless
driving on the part of a student. I have been informed, Miss Cairns,
that you are in the habit of exceeding the speed limit. It is a
particularly dangerous proceeding on the highways adjacent to the
college on account of the number of students who make a practice of
walking. Referring to the accident to Miss Langly. What restitution
could you have made if her back had been permanently injured? There is
nothing more pitiful than a helpless invalid. Remember that and see that
you are not the one to cause lifelong unhappiness or death by an act of
sheer lawlessness. Let this be the last offense of this kind on your
part."

Thus the president concluded his arraignment. Leslie left Hamilton Hall
with but one flaming purpose. She would be even with the person or
persons who had reported her to the president. Suspicion instantly
pointed out "that Sanford crowd." She gave Katherine clearance of it,
strange to say. She preferred to lay the blame at either the door of
Marjorie or Jerry. Yet she had dark suspicions of Leila and Vera. Then
there were the freshmen who had been in Harriet Stephens'