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 listed not only the active members of each chapter but it called upon the popular alumnae, too. Tau Gamma always had appealed to Alice for help and for three years she had excused herself; but now she promised to "come up" for she determined to cease avoiding the campus where, in September of happier years, David used to meet her.

So she drove again to the edge of the shaded road up to the old University; she walked under the arch of trees with the leaves turning brown and fluttering down as they used to do when they marked for her the beginning of another long, delightful epoch of close companionship with David in this pleasant, set-apart world of the university. She went through the familiar halls and to chapel; she returned to Willard Hall, filled with girls, mostly strange, yet all very like girls she used to know. She went past the fraternity houses and the boarding-houses; here was the Delta Alpha house just as it used to be.

She gazed up at it, seeking a glimpse of the window which had been David's. Boys were all about and men of the younger alumni. David might be there but Alice did not see him, though she recognized a couple of men of her time. Here was Mrs. Fansler's, filled with girls again. Mrs. Fansler's house had been newly painted, it looked fresher and more cheerful. A girl had just come to Mrs. Fansler's whom Tau Gamma wanted to know; and Alice had agreed to go with one of the active Tau Gammas to call on this girl, for neither of them had the slightest idea that Fidelia would be at Mrs. Fansler's to-day. No one knew that