ay will be home in February, and
you'll have her work until June."

"But even so, I can't have the use of it myself," was Anne's response.
"I shall have to use it at home. We need every cent of it."

"Oh, dear," sighed Grace. "Why doesn't some one appear all of a sudden
and offer you a fine position at about fifty dollars a week."

"Yes," said Anne, laughing in spite of her blues. "That is what really
ought to happen, only the day for miracles is past."

"At any rate, I have always felt that you and I were going to college
together, and I believe we shall," predicted Grace.

"I hope so, but I doubt it," replied Anne wistfully. "By the way, Grace,
do you recite in any of Marian Barber's classes?"

"No," said Grace, "not this term. Why?"

"She is in my section in astronomy," answered Anne, "and lately she
fails every day in recitation. You know it's a one-term study, and she
will have to try an exam in it before long. I don't believe she'll pass,
and she told Nora at the beginning of the year that if she failed in one
study this year she wouldn't have enough credits to get through and
graduate."

"Oh, she'll pull through, I think," said Grace. "She is really brilliant
in mathematics, and always has kept up in other things."

"I know," persisted Anne, "but she has finished her mathematics' group,
and her studies this year are things she doesn't care for, and
consequently left them until the last. We wouldn't want a Phi Sigma Tau
to fail, you know."

"I should say not," was Grace's emphatic response. "What shall we do
about it?"

Anne pondered for a little. "We might take turns coaching her. We have
all passed in astronomy. I don't know how she is in her other studies,"
she said. "Do you suppose she'd be angry if we proposed it to her?"

"I don't know," said Grace doubtfully. "She hasn't been to the last two
Phi Sigma Tau meetings, and she is awfully cool to me. That's because I
don't approve of Henry Hammond. To tell you the truth, I believe he
absorbs her attention so completely that she doesn't have time for her
studies."

"It's a pity her mother is away just at the time when Marian needs her
most," Anne remarked.

"Yes," said Grace. "You know I asked her to come and stay with me, when
we came back from the judge's, but she refused rather sharply, and
practically told me that she was able to take care of herself."

Just then the gong sounded, and the girls had no further opportunity to
discuss the subj