Tin,--ancient Britain--and something about Carthage, or was that Queen Dido ?" Then she said aloud very positively and earnestly: "I know I can help you a lot with this, Uncle Cassius, if you will only let me, because history is my favorite study, and the reason I came to speak to you to-night is this: We girls are going to have a Founders' Tea, Saturday afternoon, up at Hope; just a little informal affair, but I'd like to give it a----" She hesitated for the right word, and the Dean nodded encouragingly, being in a better mood.
"Semblance of verity?
Are you preparing a treatise ?" "No.

I want something they can look at," Kit explained, "and I knew if I told you about it, you'd let us take a few of the old things out of that cabinet in your room at Assembly Hall.

All I need would be--well, say a few portraits of any of the founders of Hope, and any of the relics of the Indians or French explorers." The Dean graciously detached a key from the ring at one end of the slender chain which barred his waistcoat.
Kit retired with it, as though she bore a trophy, and the next day the last preparations were completed for impressing on the freshman class the honor of having a Founder's granddaughter in their midst..