Now, you are entering by certificate ?" "Yes, sir, from the Tannersville High School." "And your age ?" "Fifteen; sixteen in----" "Fifteen will do, thank you." He drew out a drawer in a small cabinet set at the left of the broad-topped desk and ran his fingers over the indexed cards within it, finally extracting one and laying it very exactly above the one on which he had been setting down the information supplied by Steve.

For a moment he silently compared the two.

Then he nodded with much satisfaction.

"Quite so, quite so," he said.

"You will room in Billings Hall, Number 12, Edwards.