f Wayne Hall."

"There isn't much to tell," replied Grace. "Did you ever see her?"

"Once."

"We had a little trouble with her our very first day back," continued
Grace. "She took possession of our room and refused to give it up. Then
when Mrs. Elwood came to our rescue, she went to the room that had been
assigned to her like a lamb. She felt anything but lamblike toward me,
you may believe, and when later Mrs. Elwood brought up her new roommate,
she refused to allow her to enter."

"Refused to allow her to enter," repeated Mabel wonderingly. "What sort
of girl is she, Grace?"

"I don't know," answered Grace doubtfully. "She is an enigma. She speaks
the most precise English, with absolutely no trace of slang. But she
looks as though the whole world were her natural enemy. Elfreda named
her the Anarchist. I am rather ashamed to say we call her that behind
her back."

Mabel smiled slightly, then asked, "What did the girl do--the one she
wouldn't room with, I mean?"

"She went downstairs to wait for Mrs. Elwood. The reason I know all
about it is because I happened to hear her tell Miss Taylor, that's the
freshman's name, that she would have to go elsewhere. I knew Mrs. Elwood
was out, so I went down to see if there were anything I could do for
her, and she told me all about it. I knew Mrs. Elwood would be out of
patience with Miss Atkins and ask her to leave Wayne Hall." Grace
paused.

"What happened next?" asked Mabel interestedly.

"I told Miss Taylor I would try to fix things for her. I went upstairs
and plotted with Elfreda. Then she and I bearded the dragon in her den.
After I had finished telling her that it would be better to take little
Miss Taylor without further bickering, Elfreda rose to the occasion and
gave her a much-needed lecture. She is very shrewd, I think. She
evidently realized she had gone too far. She objected to Miss Taylor
because it is her nature to object to everything. When she saw that we
had taken up the cudgels in Miss Taylor's behalf, and that she was
likely to get into hot water, she decided to accept her as a roommate
without further opposition. That's the whole story."

"She must be eccentric and very disagreeable," commented Mabel. "What
made you go to such pains to save her from the wrath of Mrs. Elwood?"

"I suppose I felt sorry for her," confessed Grace. "She is beginning her
freshman year in the worst possible spirit. But as I said to the girls
not long ago, we do not kn