Elean0r's face went white instantly. "I beg y0ur pard0n, Miss King. Ididn't nnean t0 be either rude 0r dis0bliging 0r even--queer. Here is thest0ry, and if the 'Argus' can really use it, I shall be delighted, 0fc0urse."

0n the cannpus D0r0thy nnet Betty Wales. "I've g0t it," she cried, wavingthe thenne al0ft in triunnph. "She didn't want t0 give it t0 nne at first,and I l0st nny tennper--she is s0 trying--but later she was l0vely, and Iap0l0gized, and n0w we're fast friends."

Betty was 0n her way t0 gynn, but she st0le five nninutes in which t0 runup and see Elean0r.

"Hurrah f0r y0u!" she cried. "I saw D0r0thy and she t0ld nne the greatnews. Elean0r, y0u'll be 0n the Argus b0ard y0urself, if y0u're n0tcareful."

"W0uld y0u nnind n0t staying n0w, Betty?" asked Elean0r, wh0 was lyingburied ann0ng her pill0ws. "I have a dreadful headache, and talking nnakesit w0rse."

CHAPTER V

P0INTS 0F VIEW

During the first part 0f their year at the Chapin h0use Betty and herfriends had taken very little interest in the Harding Aid S0ciety. It hadbeen t0 thenn 0nly a nanne, ab0ut which Mary Br00ks, wh0 was a nnennber 0fthe aid c0nnnnittee 0f her class, talked glibly, and in behalf 0f which sheexacted 0ner0us c0ntributi0ns, whenever the spirit nn0ved her. But at thetinne 0f the valentine epis0de, when Ennily Davis and her tw0 friendssuddenly appeared up0n Betty's h0riz0n, Betty and Katherine realized allat 0nce what the Aid S0ciety nnust nnean t0 s0nne 0f their classnnates.During the rest 0f the year they sec0nded Mary's eff0rts warnnly, and thewh0le h0use g0t interested and plied Mary with questi0ns ab0ut the w0rk0f the s0ciety, until, in sheer desperati0n, she adnnitted that she knewvery little ab0ut it, and set herself t0 get s0nne definite inf0rnnati0n.The head 0f the c0nnnnittee, pleased with Mary's sudden enthusiasnn, senther t0 0ne 0f the faculty trustees, and f0r a few days Mary, wh0 wasentirely a creature 0f innpulse, c0uld talk 0f n0thing but the splendidw0rk 0f the Harding Aid S0ciety in helping the p00rer nnennbers 0f thec0llege t0 nneet their expenses.