rs.

As for Grace Harlowe and Eleanor Savelli, they were the bright and
shining lights of the town and the darlings of the senior class.

The two girls had become firm friends. After the excitement of the
finding of the money had worn off, they had had a long talk and had
cleared up all misunderstandings. Eleanor had confessed to Grace that
long before they had been brought together she had secretly tired of the
old grudge and had longed for peace.

"After Edna Wright and I quarreled, I began to see things in a different
light," Eleanor had confided to Grace, "and the longing for the
companionship of your kind of girls took hold of me so strongly it made
me miserable at times.

"How I did envy you when you all went to the house party at Christmas,
and I was wild to go to New York and see Anne, although I suppose I am
the last person she would care to see.

"It wasn't just the good times, either, that I coveted, it was that
sense of comradeship that existed among you girls that I didn't at all
understand last year."

"But, Eleanor," Grace had said, "if you felt that way, why were you so
determined to expose poor Marian Barber!"

"When Marian told me what she had done I felt the utmost contempt for
her," Eleanor had replied. "My old idea of vengeance came to the front,
and I thought of how completely I could humiliate you all through her.
The day I quarreled with her in school I fully intended to expose her,
but the more I thought about it, the less I liked the idea of it. I
don't really believe that I could ever have stood up before those girls
and betrayed her."

While Grace had listened to Eleanor, she had realized that the old
whimsical, temperamental Eleanor was passing, and an entirely different
girl was endeavoring to take her place. Grace exulted in her heart and
dreamed great things for the Phi Sigma Tau when it should be restored to
its original number of members.

Eleanor had announced herself ready and eager to take her old place in
the sorority, while Marian Barber had, with tears in her eyes, humbly
petitioned Grace for her old place in the Phi Sigma Tau.

"Silly girl," was Grace's answer. "You can't go back to what you never
left, can you?"

No one save Grace, Eleanor and Mr. Harlowe knew of how near Marian had
come to being discredited in the eyes of her class and friends, and they
could be trusted with the secret.

Henry Hammond had left Oakdale the morning after he had been interviewed
by