told us in English class that a great deal of slang
originated in college, and she gave 'stunt' as an example. She said it
had been used here ever so long and only a few years outside, in quite a
different meaning. Isn't that queer?"

"Yes," said Helen indifferently. "She told my division too, but she
didn't say what it meant here. I suppose she thought we'd all know."

Betty, stealing a glance at her, saw her wink back the tears. "She does
care about the fun," thought Betty. "She cares as much as Rachel or I,
or Eleanor even. And she is left out. It isn't a bit fair, but what's to
be done about it?"

Being young and very happy herself, she speedily forgot all about the
knotty problem of the unequal distribution of this world's goods,
whether they be potatoes or fudge parties. Occasionally she remembered
again, and gave Helen a helping hand, as she had done several times
already. But college is much like the bigger world outside. The fittest
survive on their own merits, and these must be obvious and well
advertised, or they are in great danger of being overlooked. And it is
safer in the long run to do one's own advertising and to begin early.
Eleanor understood this, but she forgot or ignored the other rules of
the game. Betty practiced it unconsciously, which is the proper method.
Helen never mastered its application and succeeded in spite of it.

* * * * *

Several evenings after that one on which the fudge had refused to cook,
Alice Waite was trying to learn her history lesson, and her "queer"
roommate, who loved to get into her bed as well as she hated to make it,
was trying to go to sleep--an operation rendered difficult by the fact
that the girl next door was cracking butternuts with a marble
paper-weight--when there was a soft tap on the door.

"Don't answer," begged the sleepy roommate.

"May be important," objected Alice, "but I won't let her stay. Come in!"

The door opened and a young gentleman in correct evening dress, with an
ulster folded neatly over his arm, entered the room and gazed, smiling
and silent, about him. He was under average height, slightly built, and
had a boyish, pleasant face that fitted ill with his apparent occupation
as house-breaker and disturber of damsels.

The roommate, who had sat up in bed with the intention of repelling
whatever intruder threatened her rest, gave a shriek of mingled terror
and indignation and disappeared under t