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Rh through the crowds a great cry went up,—“Jacqueline! Jacqueline of the Carrier Pigeons!” for all recognized her as the  sweet, unselfish girl who had done and risked  so much in the terrible days of the plague  and siege, and not a few were also acquainted  with the remarkable story of her father’s  return.

It was a proud moment in her life, but she bore herself with the ease of entire unconsciousness, for her thoughts were on the  honor of the University, and not on herself. Last in the procession came the professors and instructors, and the whole passed  through every prominent street of the city  till it came to the cloister of Saint Barbara,  the place prepared for the new University. Here there was a long address by the Reverend Casper Kolhas, orator of the day, and later on a magnificent banquet. It was nightfall before all was over, and the tired participants returned to their various homes.

In a fine, roomy house on the