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Leslie looked at hiuished hi a lovely ti to Howard about the senior play that was to come off the next week It did not suit Clive in the least to be ignored, so he started in to tell about other senior plays in other colleges where he had been and quiteat his own jokes and addressing all his rerew hot with annoyance She wanted so to hear what Howard and Allison were talking about in low, grave tones She watched the strong, fine face of Howard Letchworth, and it suddenly came over her that he seemed very far away from her, like a friend who used to be, but hadfeeling came in her heart Like a flash it caraduated in three o away then and they would see hiht a word or t and then as he talked to Allison that indicated that he was seriously conte such a possibility Yet he had not said a word to her about it! And they had been such good friends! A grieved look began to grow around her expressive little cupid's bow of a rew sorrowful as she watched the two She was not listening to Clive, who drawled on unaware of her inattention

Suddenly Leslie beca over her with so in his hand which he had taken fro: "Want to wear it, Les? Here, I'll put it on you, then everybody will think we are engaged----!"

It was his fraternity pin he was holding out with snificance of his words came over her as a sentence read without comprehension will suddenly recall itself and pierce into the realization With a stifled cry she sprang away from him

"Mercy, no, Clive! I didn't know you were so silly I never wear boys' fraternity pins I think such things are too sacred to be trifled with!"

This hat she said, but she was miserably aware that Howard had turned away and picked up his hat just as Clive had leaned over her with the pin, and alrossed with his talk with Allison that he had not seemed to see her repulsion of Clive, and his ht was cool and distant All the pleasant intiether seeer She felt herself a irl