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"Oh, he ful, Allison!" shuddered Leslie "He sreat, coarse lips and eyes; and he put his arht there before us all; and they acted perfectly disgusting! I's I heard theed to him at all, she hadn't even known him till last week She met him in town--just picked him up on the street! And that Fred Hicks! I don't believe noas her cousin at all"

"Probably not But leave that all to the dean He'll ferret it out He went in there to the telephone before he left, and froot detectives out after those two guys, and they ht They certainly deserve to And I shall have a hand in settling with theo easily They've got to answer to ently on her hot, wet forehead; and Leslie caught his hand and nestled her own in it

"O Allison! It's so good to be ho his hand appreciatively "I'll never, never, never go with a girl again that you don't like I' to stick to Jane She's the only one up there I really love, anyway"

Allison seemed quite satisfied with these senti their supper before the fire, for no one had had any appetite before; and Cherry was as pleased to have the anxiety over and wait upon them all as if Leslie had been her own sister

Into the roup broke a hurried, excited knock on the door, and there stood Howard Letchworth with anxious face

"I heard that your sister and one of the college girls had gone off in a car and got lost Is it true? I caht around to see if I could help"

Leslie sat up with her teary eyes bright and eager, and her cheeks rosy with pleasure, all her pretty hair in a tu over her features in a ood of you," she called eagerly "But I'ht and safe"

He caerly, expressing his delight, and saying he had been alossip, but he could not rest satisfied until he was positive