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 of fear of Fidelia Netley and how senseless, also, was any fear of losing David to another. It arose—she always said to herself—from the fact that at the start she had David so much to herself; for at first hardly another girl in college had thought about the serious, self-conscious boy, so pitifully strange to amusements and luxuries, who had come to Evanston to attend classes while working. Not only had they left him to himself but some of them had been rather entertained by Alice's "taking him up" and teaching him how to dance and "looking out for him." Now no one in college was so competent to look out for himself and, also, look out for a girl; and now many girls appreciated him; there was not one, who knew him, that did not like to refer to her friendship with David Herrick. Suppose he could come to care for one of them? "I haven't got to suppose that," Alice said to herself; and aloud she told him: "You see, a new Tau Gamma arrived to-night. She was initiated at our Minnesota chapter; we just heard about her and Myra had her in her room meeting some of our girls."

"I saw her," said Dave and the image of that unusual, vital girl, as she first had appeared, rose in his mind.

"You did? Where?"

"In front of Willard. She came out with Nell Gould and Nell introduced me. I suppose she's the one; a great looking girl; red hair. She's staying at Fansler's. But Nell didn't tell me she was a Tau Gamma."

"Nell wouldn't," Alice said. "We haven't asked her