s, the President had tried an experiment on Molly and the
experiment had failed, and no one was more pleased than Miss Walker
herself in the failure. She liked to see her girls loyal to each other.
But things had not been going well at Wellington that autumn. There was
an undercurrent of mischief in the air, a dangerous element, carefully
hidden, and still slowly undermining the standards of Wellington. Miss
Walker was very much enraged over the rumor that the ghost of her
beloved sister had been seen wandering about the campus. This was too
much. Her Irish maid had repeated the story to her and she had
determined to lay that ghost without the assistance of the night
watchman or any one else.

The surprise of first being stretched on the grill and then embraced by
the President of Wellington College brought Molly to herself like a
shock of cold water. She looked up into the older woman's face and
smiled and the two sat down side by side on a little sofa, the President
still holding Molly's hand. There might be some who could resist the
piteous look in those blue eyes, but not President Walker.

"I'm afraid I'm just a weak old person," she said to herself, giving the
hand a little squeeze and then releasing it.

"Judy wasn't the ghost, either, Miss Walker," said Molly, glad to be
able to defend her friend on safe grounds. "The night we were chased
Judy was in our rooms all the time. Last night was the first time she
had ever done anything so foolish. It was only because a girl she goes
with bet she wouldn't. It was the same girl that made her dye her hair,"
Molly added, without any feeling of disloyalty.

"Ahem! And who is this young woman who has such a bad influence on Miss
Kean?"

Molly flushed. Was she to be placed on the grill again? But after all
there was no harm in telling the name of the girl who had brought all
Judy's trouble on her.

"Adele Windsor."

"And what do you know of her?"

"I don't know anything about her except that she has fascinated Judy."

"And Judy must be punished," mused the President. "Judy is a very
difficult character and she must be brought to her senses if she expects
to remain at Wellington."

"Judy loves Wellington, indeed she does, Miss Walker. It's only that she
has got into a wrong way of thinking this year. I've heard her tell
freshmen how splendid it was here and how they would grow to love it
like all the rest of us."

"She has not been doing well at all. She never s