at it would be
fair to apply for admission there. You see, Grace, my salary on the
newspaper, during the summer, is a generous one, and, by managing
carefully, I can pay my expenses in college for the year with it. I
don't have to do that, however, for every week I write a story for the
Sunday edition of our paper which more than pays my board at Wayne Hall.
Then I send in extra space articles and go out on special stories during
the Christmas and Easter vacations. I am never really very short of
money, so I'm not eligible as a member of your household."

"You are a clever, capable girl, Kathleen," averred Grace, with honest
admiration, "and I am proud to be your friend."

A long look of perfect understanding passed between the two. It had come
only after many days of misunderstanding and doubt.

"Dear Loyalheart, I can never forgive myself for making you so unhappy,"
Kathleen's crisp tones trembled.

"And I shall never forgive you if you mention it again," retorted Grace.
"You mustn't recall such things. I am enough of a believer in destiny to
feel that we had to go through a kind of probation period before we were
ready to be friends."

"It's dear in you to say so, Grace, but I know myself, and how
contemptibly I behaved. I've been determined to say this to you ever
since I came back to college, but you have never given me the least
chance until now."

"'Loyalheart' was the highest proof of your regard you could have given
me," reminded Grace gently. "I don't need any other reminders. I must
go, Kathleen. Did I hear you say you were going with me?"

"Yes."

Kathleen slipped into her hat and coat, and, as they went down Mrs.
Elwood's familiar stairs and strolled out into the crisp autumn air, arm
in arm, Kathleen felt that she could never be thankful enough to the
girl who had taught her the true meaning of college spirit.

CHAPTER XIV

A DISQUIETING THOUGHT

When half way across the campus the two young women encountered Evelyn
Ward. The cold crisp November air had deepened the pink in her cheeks to
living rose. Her violet eyes fairly blazed with light and sparkle, and
her wonderful golden hair peeped in fascinating little curls from under
her gray velour hat. She wore a three-quarter length gray coat, cut in
the smartest fashion, and a passing glance at her would have left one
with the impression that she was in affluent circumstances.

"How can a girl who can't afford to pay her college expens