we
House girls, with a president and other officers. The club will have a
constitution and by-laws and every member will have to live up to them."

"Wouldn't that be splendid?" asked Cecil Ferris, a gray-eyed,
black-haired freshman who made up in energy what she lacked in height.

"Who would be president I wonder," murmured Evelyn, shooting a glance of
apparent innocence about the circle.

"You'd make a good president, Miss Ward," declared Mary Reynolds, in
open admiration. To her beauty-loving little soul Evelyn was the most
exquisite person in the world.

"_I_," cried Evelyn in well-simulated amazement. "I wouldn't attempt to
be, I am not clever or popular enough."

"I believe you would be the very one. You are so independent and know
just how to do things." Now that Mary had suggested it, it met with
Nettie Weyburn's placid approval. Cecil Ferris echoed it. She, too, had
fallen under the spell of Evelyn's beauty.

"I must run along or be late to chapel," murmured Evelyn modestly, and
hurried off at precisely the wisest moment to further her own cause. The
ambition to become the president of the proposed club had sprung into
life in her self-centered young soul as she stood reading the bulletin,
and she determined that she would leave nothing undone to obtain the
honor.

At luncheon that day she took particular pains to be unusually friendly
to every one with whom she came in contact, exhibiting a gay
graciousness of manner toward a number of girls she had secretly
labeled, "digs, prigs and plodders." This quite won their trusting
hearts and made them innocently wonder how they had, so far, happened to
miss becoming really well acquainted with Miss Ward.

When at five o'clock the big living room began to fill, Evelyn was among
the first there, with a dazzling smile for all comers. At ten minutes
past five the thirty-three girls who claimed Harlowe House as their home
were sitting or standing expectantly about the room, waiting for Grace,
who stood at one end of the room with Emma, to call the meeting to order
and enter upon the discussion of that "most important subject."

"I have asked you to come here this afternoon because I believe the time
has arrived to try out a plan which I have had in my mind ever since
college began," stated Grace, by way of beginning. Then in clear,
concise sentences she told of her desire that her girls should be
self-governing and of how much good fellowship their banding themse