announced. "She _must_ be a
freshman, Priscilla. Look again."

"I've gone over this list three times, and there isn't a single Ferris
down."

Georgie and Patty exchanged glances and inquired the trouble.

"A girl named Kate Ferris has registered for the German Club, and we've
gone through all the classes, and there simply isn't any such girl in
college."

"Possibly a special," Patty suggested.

"Of course! Why didn't we think of that?" And Priscilla turned to the
list of special students. "No; she isn't here."

"Let me look"; and Patty ran her eyes down the column. "You've mistaken
the name," she remarked, handing the book back with a shrug.

Priscilla produced the registration-list, and triumphantly exhibited an
unmistakable Kate Ferris.

"They forgot to put her in the catalogue."

"I never knew them to make such a mistake before," said the president,
dubiously. "I don't believe we'd better put her in the roll-book till we
find out who she is."

"Then you'll hurt her feelings," said Georgie. "Freshmen are terribly
sensitive about being slighted."

"Oh, very well; it doesn't matter." And Kate Ferris was accordingly
enrolled in the club records.

Several weeks later Priscilla was engaged in laboriously turning the
minutes of the last meeting into grammatical German, and as she closed
the dictionary and grammar with a sigh of relief, she remarked to Patty:
"Do you know, it's very queer about that Kate Ferris. She hasn't paid
her dues, and, as far as I can make out, she hasn't attended a single
meeting. Wouldn't you take her name off the roll? I don't believe she's
in college any more."

"You might as well," said Patty, and she listlessly watched Priscilla as
she scratched out the name with a penknife. Patty never made the mistake
of over-acting.

The next morning, as Priscilla came in from a class, she found a note on
her door-block, written in the perpendicular characters of Kate Ferris.
It ran:

DEAR MISS POND: I came to pay my German Club dues,
and as you are not in, I have left the money on
the bookcase. Am sorry to have missed so many
meetings, but have not been able to attend classes
lately. KATE FERRIS.

Priscilla exhibited the note to the president as a tangible proof that
Kate Ferris still existed, and reinscribed the name in the roll-book.

A few weeks later she found a second note on her door-block:

DEAR MIS