Leslie as the sound floated in
through the transom. "He won't have anything to do with it. You see!"

"What makes you think so, dear? He's whistling. That sounds as if he
liked it."

"Yes, but look what he's whistling. He always begins on 'The Long,
Long Trail' if he isn't pleased or has to wait when he's in a hurry to
get anywhere. Now, if he had been pleased, you would have heard 'One
grasshopper hopped right over th' other grasshopper's back.' I can
always tell. Well, I don't care; do you, Cloudy? There's plenty of
other colleges, and I didn't see our house in any of the streets we
went through, did you?"

Julia Cloud had to confess that she had not been in love with anything
she had seen yet.

"Well, then, what's the use of going over the old college? I say let's
beat it in the morning."

But Julia Cloud would not hear to that. She said they must be fair
even to a college, and Mr. Luddington would want them to look the
place over thoroughly while they were there. So after breakfast
the two reluctant young people went with Julia Cloud to make
investigation.

They went through the classrooms and the chapel and the library and
gymnasiums. They visited the science halls and workshops. They even
climbed up to the observatory, and took a squint at the big telescope,
and then they came down and went with a real-estate dealer to see some
houses. But at twelve o'clock they came back to their boarding-house
with a sigh of relief, ate a good dinner, and, climbing into their
car, shook the dust of the town, as it were, from their feet.

"It may be a very nice town, but it's not the town for me," chanted
Leslie, nestling back among the cushions.

"Here, too!" said Allison, letting the car ride out under full power
over the smooth country road. But, though Julia Cloud questioned
several times, she could get no explanation except Allison's terse
"Too provincial," whatever he meant by that. She doubted whether he
knew himself. She wondered whether it were that they each felt the
same homesick feeling that she had experienced.

They stayed that night at a little country inn, and started on their
way again at early morning, for they had a long journey before them to
reach the second place that Mr. Luddington had suggested. Late that
afternoon they stopped in a small city, and decided to rest until
morning; for the children wanted to stretch their limbs, and they felt
that their aunt was very weary though she declared she