you," supplemented Miriam Nesbit slyly.

"That wasn't what I was going to say at all," retorted Elfreda
reprovingly.

"Then I beg your pardon," returned Miriam, with mock contrition. "What
were you going to say?"

"Nothing much," grinned Elfreda, "except that I was weighed to-day and
I've lost five pounds. I am down to one hundred and forty-five pounds
now. If I can lose five pounds more this summer I shall be in fine
condition for basketball next fall."

"You did splendid work on the sub team this year," replied Miriam
warmly. "I am sure that you will make the regular team next fall."

"The upper class girls say they have very little time for basketball,"
mused Elfreda. "All kinds of other stunts crowd it out. I'm not going to
be like that, though. I love to play and I shall manage to find time for
it."

"Where is Grace to-night?" asked Elfreda. "I didn't see her at dinner."

"She had a dinner engagement with Mabel Ashe."

"Vinton's?" asked Elfreda.

Miriam nodded.

"Grace is lucky," sighed Elfreda. "She is always being invited to
something or other. Her dinner partners always materialize, too," she
added ruefully.

"Which is more than can be said of some of yours," laughed Miriam.
"Strange you never found out about that, isn't it?"

It was Elfreda's turn to nod. "I have often thought I would go to Miss
Atkins and ask her why she left me to languish dinnerless in my room
after inviting me to eat, drink and be merry," mused Elfreda. "I hate to
go home with the mystery unsolved. I believe I will go ask her now," she
declared, with sudden energy. "I know she's alone, for the Enigma isn't
there to-night." Elfreda had recently bestowed this title upon Mildred
Taylor on account of her inexplicable attitude toward Grace.

"I have been disappointed in little Miss Taylor," remarked Miriam
slowly. "I was so sure that she would prove another Arline Thayer. She
had the same fascinating little ways and at first she seemed so
genuinely frank and straightforward."

"I wonder what made her change so suddenly," said Elfreda, walking to
the door, "and toward Grace, especially. She doesn't speak to Grace when
she meets her. She is an Enigma and no mistake. Now for our friend the
Anarchist. If I don't come back within a reasonable length of time you
will know that I have been annihilated."

Ten minutes went by, then ten more. At the end of half an hour Miriam
wondered slightly at her roommate's continued absence. Just b