I should not care to have a repetition of the station scene later, on the campus, for instance.

It would hardly add to the dignity of Overton." "I'll bring her to your office to-morrow morning," said Grace, "then you can form your own opinion of her." Mary Reynolds' wistful face was the last touch needed to completely enlist Miss Wilder's sympathy in her behalf.

On the strength of the straightforward story which she repeated to the dean, she was allowed to proceed with her examinations.

Meantime Miss Wilder wrote to the authorities of the little town near which Mary's uncle's farm was situated.

They conducted a prompt investigation and by the time the hitherto friendless girl had passed triumphantly through the ordeal of examinations the faintest trace of objection to her becoming a student at Overton had been removed..