uncement with a shade of belligerence.
Unconsciously she turned her eyes toward Marjorie.

Marjorie laughed. "I know what you are thinking, Jeremiah," she said,
with quiet amazement. "Don't worry. I shall not suggest a reform
movement here for the Sans' moral benefit."

"Glad of it. Imagine me laboring patiently with that benighted heathen,
Leslie Cairns, to help her to see herself as others see her," grumbled
Jerry.

"How much the Sans would enjoy being called the heathen," interposed
Katherine Langly.

"It's appropriate. When people behave like savages, they class
themselves as such. It is a pity that we should be obliged to consider
fellow students as enemies!" Jerry continued with vehemence. "Why
should petty spite be carried to the point where it is a menace to the
whole college? An institution for the higher education of young girls in
particular should be free of such ignobility."

"Fights and fusses are not conducive to the cultivation of a scholarly
mind," Helen Trent agreed with mock solemnity.

"They are not," returned Leila, with a strong Celtic inflection of which
she, in her earnestness, was entirely unconscious.

Naturally it evoked laughter. Leila's occasional slight lapses into a
brogue were invariably amusing to her chums.

"Laugh at my brogue if you wish, I will not break your bones," she said
good-humoredly, making use of an ancient Irish expression. "I am most
Celtic when serious. Ah, well! Perhaps it is petty in us even to be
discussing the Sans, since we can say nothing good of them."

"That is their fault; not ours," Lucy Warner said incisively.

"The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in their stars, but in themselves,
that they are underlings," Vera aptly applied with a change of pronouns.

"Quite right, my child. They began it. Not one of us, before the
Lookouts came here to Hamilton, raised a voice against the Sans. We know
the Lookouts did not. This letter Leslie Cairns wrote to Jerry means
war to the knife, all this year. Unless, by good fortune, Miss Remson
has won her point and they are not to come back to the Hall. With them
out of Wayland Hall we might hope for peace. Put them in other campus
houses, they would soon lose track of you girls and turn their bad
attentions to or on someone else. Miss Remson has a strong case against
them on account of the way they treated Marjorie." Such was Helen's
opinion.

Marjorie flushed at mention of the Sans' bad treatment of herself. She
gl