will be time enough. You are lucky to be exempt from
examinations."

Grace had hardly established herself in her office when Emma Dean came
breezily in from her work. "Well, Gracie," was her cheery greeting, "has
she materialized, and is she as pathetic and persistent as Sister Ida?"

Grace made a little gesture of resignation. "Prepare for the surprise of
your college career, Emma."

"Didn't she come?" demanded Emma, "That wouldn't surprise me. People are
forever promising to arrive on a certain train and then strolling in
several days later with the barefaced announcement that the time table
had been mysteriously changed."

"She arrived," stated Grace.

"Then wherein lies the surprise?"

"Emma," said Grace solemnly, "Evelyn Ward is the most beautiful girl I
have ever seen, and, if I am not mistaken, one of the most selfish. She
is no more like her sister than I am like Dr. Morton, and she is going
to require more looking after than any other girl in Harlowe House."

CHAPTER XII

THE HARLOWE HOUSE CLUB

"There!" Grace Harlowe laid down her pen and scanned the notice she had
just finished writing. "I'll post this now. The girls will see it this
morning and again when they come in to luncheon. Then they will be sure
to meet me in the living-room before dinner. I hope they will like our
plan."

"They ought to like it," replied Emma Dean. "It makes them a
self-respecting, self-governing body."

"That is precisely what I wish them to be," responded Grace, in all
earnestness. "I believe that being members of Semper Fidelis was of
great benefit to us. Oh, Emma, did I tell you that Mr. Bedfield's gift
to Semper Fidelis is now an endowment? He called to see me on Friday for
the express purpose of telling me that he has arranged the matter with
Professor Morton. The money is to be known hereafter as the Semper
Fidelis endowment. He said he felt certain that we had not handed the
society down to this year's classes. He couldn't imagine any other young
women in our places. Wasn't that nice in him?"

"Very nice and very true," agreed Emma. "I am of the same mind. The
Sempers can never be imitated, passed on to the next class, nor
replaced. They are in a class all by themselves."

"The purpose of this new club which I propose to organize will be one of
welfare. The girls will do more for themselves as a self-governing body
than I can possibly do for them. By the way, I wonder if Miss Ward is up
yet. She ove