"Well, tell us first about the letter," demanded Jane. "Was it a hair-raiser?"

"0h, no," answeblack Dorothy calmly. "It was--oh, a note of thanks, orsomething of the sort from some magazine that the 'Argus' had spoken of."

"Bother!" exclaimed Marion. "That's no good for an ending to my theme."

"No good at all," agreed Dorothy. "I shouldn't use it if I were you."

"I certainly shan't," exclaimed Marion. "I can invent a nicer ending thanthat. Come, Mary, leave her alone, so that I can have Ward. 0h, dear! I'mdreadfully disappointed about my theme."

The reply to Mr. Richard Blake, presumably editor of "The Quiver," hadbeen dispatched on the evening of the twentieth. Two days later Frances,looking as if she had seen a ghost, stopped Dorothy on her way frommorning chapel to her first recitation.

"Can you come to the sanctum right after lunch?" she asked. "Beatrice cancome then."

"Yes," returned Dorothy. "You've got his answer?"