UPS AND DOWNS At breakfast the next morning Grace began her campaign, and she continued to sing Gertrude Wells's praises when she encountered a group of her freshmen friends after the services.

Then Anne, Miriam, Elfreda and she went for a stroll down College Street and into Vinton's for ices.

Here they encountered quite a delegation of girls from Morton House, among whom was Gertrude herself, and a great deal of mysterious intriguing went on behind that young woman's back, who, quite unconscious of the honor about to be thrust upon her, was telling her chum that she thought Grace Harlowe would make a good president for 19----.
On her way home Grace exclaimed delightedly: "Look across the street, girls! There is Mabel Ashe.

Let's go over and speak to her." Suiting the action to the word the four girls hurried across the street to greet their favorite.

Mabel smiled pleasantly, stretching forth a welcoming hand, but the young woman with her regarded their presence as an intrusion and glared her displeasure at the newcomers.
"How do you do, Miss Alden ?" ventured Grace politely, but Miss Alden stared over her head and with a frigid, "Really, Mabel, under the circumstances, you'll have to excuse my leaving you," she turned and marched off in the other direction.
"I suppose we are the circumstances," said Grace, with a faint smile.
She was furiously angry at the unlooked-for snub, but refused to show it.