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O, in the morning, they met before class as usual, Dave coming from the Delta Alpha house and Alice coming from home. The college, seeing, understood that he had explained, whatever he had had to explain, and that she was satisfied.

Of course many persons talked; and it was particularly easy to spread talk in regard to Fidelia Netley. The college knew that at Minnesota, and at Stanford, she had been a Tau Gamma; and, knowing that Alice Sothron controlled Tau Gamma here, the college said: "Now Alice will never let Fidelia Netley in."

Alice, who had written both to Minnesota and Stanford in the usual form, had a reply from Minneapolis which confirmed Fidelia's statement that the chapter had initiated her five years before; the letter contained the usual pleasant compliments. A letter from the Stanford chapter arrived at the end of the next week:

"In reply to your inquiry about Fidelia Netley, who was initiated by the chapter at the University of Minnesota, and who has told you that she was a member of this chapter for one year, we assure you this is the fact.

"She creditably passed in all her courses here and her leaving the university, at the end of the year, was not due