college functions, and a Payzant co-ed
who received an invitation to it counted herself fortunate. The senior
girls were included as a matter of course, but a junior, soph, or
freshie could not go unless one of the senior boys invited her.

Grace Seeley was studying Greek in her tiny room that afternoon when
the invitation was brought to her. It was scrupulously orthodox in
appearance and form, and Grace never doubted that it was genuine,
although she felt much surprised that Sidney Hill, the leader of his
class and the foremost figure in all college sports and societies,
should have asked her to go with him to the senior prom.

But she was girlishly pleased at the prospect. She was as fond of a
good time as any other girl, and she had secretly wished very much
that she could go to the brilliant and much talked about senior prom.

Grace was quite unaware of her own unpopularity among her class
co-eds, although she thought it was very hard to get acquainted with
them. Without any false pride herself, and of a frank, independent
nature, it never occurred to her that the other Payzant freshies could
look down on her because she was poor, or resent her presence among
them because she dressed plainly.

She straightway wrote a note of acceptance to Sidney Hill, and that
young man naturally felt much mystified when he opened and read it in
the college library next morning.

"Grace Seeley," he pondered. "That's the jolly girl with the brown
eyes that I met at the philomathic the other night. She thanks me for
my invitation to the senior prom, and accepts with pleasure. Why, I
certainly never invited her or anyone else to go with me to the senior
prom. There must be some mistake."

Grace passed him at this moment on her way to the Latin classroom. She
bowed and smiled in a friendly fashion and Sidney Hill felt decidedly
uncomfortable. What was he to do? He did not like to think of putting
Miss Seeley in a false position because somebody had sent her an
invitation in his name.

"I suppose it is some cad who has a spite at me that has done it," he
reflected, "but if so I'll spoil his game. I'll take Miss Seeley to
the prom as if I had never intended doing anything else. She shan't be
humiliated just because there is someone at Payzant who would stoop to
that sort of thing."

So he walked up the hall with Grace and expressed his pleasure at her
acceptance, and on the evening of the prom he sent her a bouquet of
white carn