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 "I was riding to the right, I remember. We bought bread there and cartridges. I was happy; or I thought I was. Then we went on to Lakoon!

"Probably this Roy Wheen was not even in Mondora when I was there; he would never know me. No one that I've seen has mentioned him at all. Hatfield house, where he lives, is not in fraternity circles.

"Tau Gamma girls invited me to Willard after supper. Tau Gamma is certainly the sorority here, as I'd heard it was. Alice Sothron runs the chapter because she has the most money and can do entertaining and other things for the girls. She's rich and generous and sweet; but that's about all. She doesn't, but I can make her, like me. She wants to be fair and she's the one that will write to Minnesota and Stanford about me. Well, Minnesota will come through for me; Stanford, too. They'll O. K. me and Alice Sothron will tell this chapter to take me in.

"The man in college is David Herrick—everybody calls him Dave. He's the sort of man I've sense enough now to appreciate. They say he was nobody at all when he came here four years ago but now everybody drags him into the conversation in some way. He was waiting for Alice Sothron when I came out of Willard. I liked his looks and the way he stood; I saw there was no mere boy but a man. We were introduced and he said, after I told him I'd been at Minnesota and Stanford, 'now you're trying us.' Then he was sorry; and nice, I'm going to like him; hasn't been about the world much but he has will and character. He's innocent and strong. I like him now; I keep thinking about him. He's certainly a contrast to S."

Fidelia wrote the initial but not the name and she stopped writing. She glanced over the page but her mind was not on it; for the last line she had written had turned her thought emotionally into the past.

It went back beyond the date of the beginning of