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Rh "Probably this is the calm before the storm," suggested Phil. "We may be turned down after this, the same as Boswell was."

"I wonder what he wanted?" mused Tom.

"Oh, probably to ask the best way to darn socks without tying a string around the hole," suggested Frank, with delicate sarcasm.

"Here come the girls!" exclaimed Tom, and the murmur of voices bore out his remark.

While the conversation that followed was probably of intense and absorbing personal interest to those who took part in it, there was not enough of general Interest to warrant me setting it down here. Sufficient to say that all sorts of matters, from the coming regatta to the opening of the football season, were discussed, and commented upon. Needless to say the Fairview girls, with commendable loyalty, declared that their college was going to be the champions of the gridiron and river.

Tom found chance for a quiet word with Ruth just before the ringing of a warning bell announced that visiting hours were nearly over. She explained that it was a surprise to her when Boswell called, and she and her chums decided not to meet him.

"I haven't found out anything more about your pin," Tom said. "That is, I haven't located it." for he did not want to go into details about the