ntimate friend.
I mailed my letter to the president. It went through the postoffice.
This precludes the possibility of it having been tampered with."

"Perhaps the Sans guessed that you would refuse them admittance to the
Hall this year because you called the meeting in the living room," was
Muriel's plausible surmise. "You had had a good deal of trouble with
them and they knew they were in the wrong; that you disapproved of them.
They may have scented disaster and taken the bull by the horns. They
calculated, perhaps, that you might appeal to President Matthews and
thought they would secure themselves by reporting us and accusing you of
favoritism."

"That would be typical of the Sans," agreed Leila energetically. "Not so
much Leslie Cairns. She bribes and bullies her way to whatever she
wants. Joan Myers wrote the letter. She is considered very clever among
her crowd. She may have made the plan. Dulcie Vale is too stupid and Nat
Weyman is wrapped up in herself."

"A clever letter, contemptible though it is," pronounced Veronica. "The
writer has put a certain amount of force in it which passes for
sincerity."

"It reads as though she had been informed that Miss Remson was going to
turn the Sans down and was honestly sore over it." Jerry added her
speculation to Ronny's.

"It is too bad!" exclaimed Helen Trent, indignantly. "I mean for you,
Miss Remson. You can soon find out for yourself whether they simply
guessed you were down on them or really had information. When the Sans
come back to the Hall, if they are snippy and insolent from the start,
that will mean, I think, that they had warning of it. If they are rather
subdued and fairly civil, for them, then they only made a daring bluff
and are not sure, up to date, whether their suspicion was correct."

"Great head!" laughingly complimented Jerry. "There is nothing the mater
with Helen's reasoning powers."

Miss Remson nodded slowly as she considered Helen's words. "That is very
likely the way it will be," she said. "The matter will have to remain
closed, because President Matthews wishes it to be so. I shall not adopt
his suggestion of a personal talk with these girls." A glint of
belligerence appeared in her eyes. "I have been here at the Hall many
years and seen many young women come and go. I am not a bad judge of
girl character and motive. It will not take me long to fathom these
girls' deceit in this affair, if the letter Miss Myers wrote was based
on s