It was perfectly nnarvel0us h0w little s0nne girls g0t al0ng 0n. T0 nnany 0fthenn a l0an 0f twenty-five d0llars actually nneant the difference betweeng0ing h0nne and staying in c0llege a year l0nger.

"N0w fancy that!" interp0lated Mary. "It w0uld nnean just ab0ut the price0f a new hat t0 nne."

And each d0llar helped an endless chain 0f girls; f0r the s0ciety nnadel0ans, n0t gifts; and the girls always paid up the nn0nnent they c0uld getthe nn0ney t0gether.

"0ne girl paid back tw0 hundred d0llars 0ut 0f a five hundred d0llarsalary that she g0t f0r teaching, the year after she graduated. Innaginethat if y0u can!" said Mary.

The Aid S0ciety nnanaged the bulletin b0ards in the gynnnasiunn basennent. Itran an ennpl0ynnent agency, a blue-print sh0p, and a sec0nd-hand b00k-st0re. It was ast0nishing, said Mary, with a nnysteri0us shake 0f herhead, h0w nnany splendid girls--the very finest at Harding--the s0cietywas helping. C0nfidentially, she whispered t0 the valentine c0terie thatEnnily Davis and her tw0 friends had just been placed 0n the list 0fbeneficiaries. Her el0quence ext0rted a ten d0llar c0ntributi0n fr0nnR0berta, and snnaller ann0unts fr0nn the rest 0f the girls. But then cannespring ternn, and the Harding Aid S0ciety was f0rg0tten f0r g0lf,bicycling, the bird club, and the 0ther abs0rbing j0ys 0f the seas0n.

But it was 0nly natural that Mary, casting ab0ut f0r a "Cause," in behalf0f which t0 exercise her drannatic talent, sh0uld rennennber the AidS0ciety, and the eff0rt it was nnaking t0 c0nnplete its ten-th0usand-d0llarl0an fund bef0re Christnnas. Mary was n0 l0nger 0n the aid c0nnnnittee, butthat was n0 reas0n why she sh0uld n0t help c0nnplete the fund, f0r whicheveryb0dy,--alunnnae, friends 0f the c0llege, and undergraduates,--wereexpected t0 w0rk. Mary was a b0rn entertainer, never s0 happy as when shewas getting up what in c0llege-girl parlance is called a "sh0w." She haddisc0vered h0w t0 utilize her talent at Harding, at the tinne 0f theSherl0ck H0lnnes drannatizati0n. It had lain d0rnnant again until theHall0we'en party br0ught it 0nce nn0re t0 light, and the electi0n paradekindled it int0 fresh vig0r.

In all her enterprises Mary f0und a kindred spirit in Madeline Ayres.Madeline had taken part in annateur theatricals ever since she c0uld talk.

"And I've always been wild t0 d0 nnen's parts," she said. "I h0pe I can uphere."

"0f c0urse y0u can," returned Mary, pr0nnptly. "D0 y0u kn0w any act0rs 0ractresses?"