have gone
around snubbing you and telling lies about you----"

"Oh, well, after all, that didn't really hurt me----"

"And that brazen girl wouldn't have dared come here to the same
college and make it hot for you----!"

"Allison! How did you _know_?" Jane sat up and looked into his eyes,
startled.

"I knew from the first mention that it must have been Eugenia Frazer.
No girl in her senses would have taken the trouble to do what she did
to-day without some grievance----! Oh, that girl! She is beyond words!
Think of anybody ever falling in love with her! I'd like the pleasure
of informing her what her father was. Of course, though, it wasn't her
fault. She couldn't help her father being what he was, but she could
help what she is herself. I should certainly like to see her get
what's coming to her----!"

"Don't Allison--please! It isn't the right spirit for us to have.
Perhaps I'd be just like her if I were in her place----"

"I see you being like her--you angel!" And Allison leaned over again
to look into the eyes of his beloved.

"Well, dear, we'll get the right spirit about it somehow, and forget
her, but I mean she shall understand right where she gets off before
this thing goes any farther. No, you needn't protest. I'm not going to
give away your confidence. But I'm going to settle that girl where she
won't dare to make any more trouble for you ever again. And the first
thing we're going to do is to announce our engagement. I feel like
going up to the college bulletin board right this minute and writing
it out in great big letters!"

"Allison!" Jane sat up with shining eyes and her cheeks very red. Then
they both broke down and laughed, Jane's merriment ending in a serious
look.

"Allison, you really _want me_, now you know what people may think
about my father?"

"Jane, I've known all that since I first saw you. Our beloved pastor
kindly informed me of it the night he introduced us, so you see how
little weight it had with any of us. I had no knowledge but that it
was all true, although I couldn't for the life of me see how a man who
was unworthy of you could have possibly been your father; but it was
you, and not your father, I fell in love with the first night I saw
you. I'm mighty glad for your sake that he wasn't that kind of man,
because I know how you would feel about it, but as for what other
people think about it, _I should worry_! And Jane, make up your mind
right here and now that we're goin