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 sorority sister and to volunteer that she was pleasant.

Alice agreed: "Yes, she was pleasant." Then the demand forced itself out: "How did you know she was staying at Mrs. Fansler's?"

"Oh, some of the fellows saw her at the station and told her how to get there. They were talking about her at the house. Good she's a Tau Gamma already or you'd have a fight for her on your hands, if you wanted her. Lan saw her and told me to tip you off to her; of course he didn't know you had her already."

"We haven't her really yet," Alice corrected. "We have to write the chapter that initiated her, of course; then we have to vote to invite her to join us. Minnesota initiated her."

Alice nearly added: "Then she went to Stanford." But Alice did not; it would have been too near to suggesting something disagreeable to tell how Fidelia Netley had shifted about from college to college. Yet Alice could not help wanting Dave to know that perhaps everything was not so fair about this unusual girl whom he had found great looking and so pleasant. The next minute she was very glad she had not told him, for he said:

"Yes; she mentioned she started at Minnesota and then went to Stanford. Her family move to California?"

"No, she has no family—only an aunt who hates her and who kept her living in schools. The court took her from her aunt eight years ago and since then she's been brought up by a bank. Tau Gamma has been the nearest thing to a family she's ever known,"