THE PHI SIGMA TAUS MEET WITH A LOSS After considerable coaxing, Eva finally wrung from Marian a promise to visit her that evening.

She arrived about eight o'clock, and Eva tactfully producing a box of nut chocolates, a confection of which Marian was very fond, the two girls seated themselves in the Allen's cozy sitting room, with the box on a taboret between them.
Marian became more like her old self again, and the two girls were laughing merrily over the antics of Eva's Angora kitten when the doorbell rang, and Eva, looking rather conscious, went to the door.
At the sound of girlish voices, Marian rose, a look of intense annoyance on her face, which deepened as the Phi Sigma Tau trooped into the room, and laughingly surrounded her.
"How are you, Marian ?" they cried.

"You wouldn't come to us, so we planned a little surprise." "So I see," replied Marian stiffly.

"I am sorry, but I really must go, Eva.

You should have told me that the girls were coming." "Why, Marian Barber, what are you talking about ?" asked Nora O'Malley in pretended surprise.