ions
to innocent fun, but absurdities would not be tolerated. All the time
she was speaking she was looking straight at Judy, who, with chin
resting on her hand and eyelids drooped, apparently read a hymn book.
That afternoon Miss Julia Kean received a summons to appear at Miss
Walker's office immediately. From this interview Judy emerged in a
stubborn, angry humor. Miss Walker was a wise woman in her generation,
but she had never had a girl of Judy's temperament to deal with before.
Judy's rather contemptuous indifference had inflamed the President into
saying some rather harsh things.

If one girl dyed her hair a great many others might. Such things often
struck a college in waves and she was not going to tolerate it.

Therefore, Judy, unreasonably angry, as she always was under reproof,
had no word to say to her anxious friends awaiting her at No. 5,
Quadrangle.

"Was it very bad, Judy, dear?" Nance asked, when Judy walked into the
room, white and silent.

"It was worse than that," replied Judy in a steady even voice. "If she
had given me twenty lashes on my bare shoulders I should have liked it
better. What business is it of hers what color I turn my hair? This is
not a boarding school. I detest her!" Whereupon, she slammed her door
and the girls did not see her again for several hours.

When she did finally emerge, she was calm and smiling, but the girls
felt instinctively that her dangerous mood had not passed, only
deepened, and Molly felt she would give a great deal to win her friend
away from the malign influence of Adele Windsor.

It seemed to her sometimes that Judy was cherishing a secret grievance
against her as well as against Miss Walker. But Molly had little time
for brooding over such things in the daytime and at night sleep overtook
her as soon as her tired head dropped on the pillow.

A great many things were in the air at Wellington just now. A prize had
been offered for the best suggestion for a jubilee entertainment. It
was only ten dollars, but every girl in college competed except Judy.
One morning Adele Windsor's name was posted on the bulletin board as
winner of the prize, and not long afterward they learned that it was
Judy's scheme, unfolded on the opening night of college, that Adele had
appropriated, no doubt with Judy's full consent.

Molly's exchange of brief notes with Jimmy Lufton had ripened into a
correspondence, and she was prepared therefore for the enormous package
contai