hat any misunderstandings that may arise will be cleared away as easily
as this one has been."

"Suppose we go over and congratulate Miss Harlowe on her playing this
afternoon," proposed a tall freshman, "and we might incidentally pay our
respects to Miss Briggs. We must help her to live up to her good
resolutions, you know," she added slyly.

Anne was in a maze of delight at her success. The other guests had been
so busily engaged with their own little groups, no one of them had
overheard Anne's defense of her friend. Grace, who was giving an eager
account of the famous game that won her team the championship during her
sophomore year at high school, looked up in surprise at the crowd of
merry girls which suddenly surrounded her. For an instant she looked
amazed, then smiled at them in the frank, straightforward fashion that
always made friends for her.

Gertrude Wells, who, with three other freshmen, had been in the kitchen
preparing the refreshments, appeared in the door just in time to see the
girls surround Grace. She smiled contentedly, and nodding to the
fluffy-haired little girl standing beside her said gleefully: "What did
I tell you? Look in there."

The fluffy-haired little girl obeyed. "How did you do it?" was the quick
answer.

"They did it themselves. I just did the inviting and they did the rest.
Of course there was a certain amount of chance that they wouldn't get
together, but it was worth taking. After meeting her this afternoon I
felt sure that the girls were wrong, but I wished them to find out for
themselves. How it happened, I don't know, but we are sure to hear the
story after the party is over."

While Gertrude Wells was congratulating herself on the success of her
experiment, Grace Harlowe was remarking to Miriam Nesbit that she
thought Gertrude Wells would be an ideal president from 19---- and that
she intended pointing out this fact to the freshmen of Wayne Hall.

CHAPTER XII

UPS AND DOWNS

At breakfast the next morning Grace began her campaign, and she
continued to sing Gertrude Wells's praises when she encountered a group
of her freshmen friends after the services. Then Anne, Miriam, Elfreda
and she went for a stroll down College Street and into Vinton's for
ices. Here they encountered quite a delegation of girls from Morton
House, among whom was Gertrude herself, and a great deal of mysterious
intriguing went on behind that young woman's back, who, quite
unconscious of