CHAPTER VI.
A FACE TO FACE TALK For a week at least Alice Rawle stayed religiously away from Wayne Hall and her idol, during which time Kathleen went serenely about her business, apparently undisturbed by the lull in the attentions of her one "crush." Then a certain sharp-eyed sophomore noted the fact and, happening to run across the newspaper girl in the gymnasium one afternoon, remarked laughingly, "I hear your little friend, Miss Rawle, has transferred her allegiance to Miss Eliot." "What utter nonsense," declared Kathleen.

Yet she frowned her displeasure at the intimation, and immediately held Patience responsible for Miss Rawle's deflection.

She decided to look into the matter that very afternoon and found time to stop and see Alice on her way home from her class.

She rang the bell at Livingston Hall a little before five o'clock, only to find that Miss Rawle had not yet come in.

The newspaper girl turned her steps toward Wayne Hall, feeling slightly disappointed and vexed.