"Postman dropped it, probably, and somebody who didn't know any betterstuck it up there--the janitor, maybe."

"Perhaps Frances dropped it herself," suggested Madeline Ayres.

Marion shook her head. "Anyhow if she did, she hasn't read it. I noticedthat it hadn't been opened."

"Perhaps it's a letter like Mary's, saying that her mother is coming,"suggested Helen Adams.

"Guess again. It can't be that, because her mother wouldn't direct aletter to the editor-in-chief of the 'Argus.'"

"Hear that, Dottie," called Jane Brooks to Dorothy King, who was sittingon the divan below the Turkish lantern, talking busily with Mrs. Brooks."There's a letter for your chief over on the zoology bulletin board.You'd much better stop in and get it for her."

"Isn't it funny," exclaimed Rachel Morrison, "that, as well as Frances West isknown in college and as many juniors and seniors as look at that bulletinboard, nobody has thought to take her the letter."

"Why didn't you take it to her, Laurie?" asked Mary severely.