them on
as they ran.

After chapel Grace left Anne at the door of Science Hall and went on to
Overton Hall. She wished to see Miss Duncan before her first class
recited, and learn the latest developments of her case. Until chapel
exercises were over, Grace had refused to allow her mind to dwell on her
trouble, but now, as she climbed slowly up the broad stairway to Miss
Duncan's class room, the whole unhappy affair rose before her.

Miss Duncan was sitting at her desk as Grace entered. She looked at her
watch, smiled frankly at Grace and said in her usual businesslike way,
"I can give you only ten minutes, Miss Harlowe."

The teacher's friendly tone made Grace's heart leap. She recognized the
fact that Miss Duncan no longer looked upon her with suspicion.

"Your innocence was clearly proven by Miss Ashe," said Miss Duncan in
her blunt fashion, coming at once to the point. "I recognize your claim
to the authorship of the theme. The other young woman was the real
plagiarist. It was a contemptible trick and not in keeping with Overton
standards."

"What will happen to this other girl, Miss Duncan?" asked Grace
apprehensively, her eyes fixed on Miss Duncan.

"What do you think she deserves?" inquired Miss Duncan quizzically.

"A chance to redeem herself," was the prompt reply. "No one except you
knows who she is. I don't wish to know her identity, and I am sure Miss
Ashe doesn't. Couldn't you send for the girl and tell her that it would
be a secret between just you two. That you were willing to forget it had
happened if she were willing to start all over again and build her
college foundation fairly and squarely. It wouldn't be of any benefit to
her to place her fault before the dean. No doubt she would be dismissed,
and that dismissal might spoil her whole life."

"You are an eloquent pleader, Miss Harlowe," returned Miss Duncan. "As
this is strictly an affair of one of my classes, I consider that I am at
liberty to do as I think best about placing this matter before the dean.
If I did see fit to do so I hardly think it would mean dismissal,
particularly if I took you with me to plead the cause of the offender.
Come to me this afternoon after my last class and I will give you my
answer."

Grace left the class room far more cheerfully than she had entered. Her
own vindication had not impressed her half so deeply as Miss Duncan's
apparently lenient attitude toward the girl who had been false to
herself and to Over