THE ANONYMOUS LETTER After the parts had been given out, rehearsals for the play went merrily on.

There were many hitches at first, but finally things settled down to smooth running order, and as the time for its presentation approached Miss Tebbs had good reason to feel jubilant.

Each girl seemed bent on distinguishing herself, and that teacher was heard laughingly to declare that she had an "all star cast." In spite of rehearsals, Grace Harlowe's team found time for a few basketball games, and whipped the senior team twice in succession, much to the disgust of Captain Julia Crosby, who threatened to go into deep mourning over what she called "her dead and gone team." She even composed a mournful ditty, which she sang in their ears in a wailing minor key whenever she passed any of them, and practically tormented them, until they actually did win one hard-fought victory over the juniors, "just to keep Julia from perpetrating her eternal chant," as one of them remarked.
Eleanor had outwardly settled down to the routine of school work in a way that surprised even her aunt.

But inwardly she was seething with rebellion toward Miss Thompson and hatred of the Phi Sigma Tau.

She had fully determined that Anne Pierson should never play Rosalind, and had hit upon a plan by which she hoped to accomplish her ends.