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Marjorie Dean, College Freshman

"Oh, dear! I wish Jerry would come home! I want to see her! I've always missed her terribly during vacations, but this summer I've missed her more than ever. I'm simply starved for a sight of her dear jolly face! Here it is, the twenty-fourth of August, and no Jerry Jeremiah G...

Chapters

27. CHAPTER XXVII.--THE SECOND VICTORY.

That particular week seemed the longest to Marjorie she had ever spent. While she could only guess that the damaging letter held by Leslie Cairns was from Rowena Farnham, she wa...

17. CHAPTER XVII.--A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF.

The result of Lucy's strong plea for an official meeting of the Five Travelers was a gathering, in hers and Ronny's room, on the next evening. As all had agreed to prepare for t...

4. CHAPTER IV--CONCERNING JEREMIAH.

Luncheon proved a merry little meal. When one has been suddenly lifted out of the dumps by the arrival of a friend from afar, and afterward doubly cheered by exceptionally good...

13. CHAPTER XIII.--ON THE TRAIL OF DINNER.

"Can you beat it? Uh-h-h-h!" Jerry dropped with angry force into the arm chair which Natalie Weyman had so recently vacated. "What was the matter with those girls, anyway? How c...

26. CHAPTER XXVI.--FRIENDS GOOD AND TRUE.

"Do you see anything about me to laugh at?" demanded Marjorie one snowy afternoon in early March, as she walked into her room, eyes sparkling, cheeks aglow, not only from the wi...

20. CHAPTER XX.--LIVING UP TO TRADITION.

To be ignored on one's arrival at Hamilton and in less than six weeks to be acclaimed the college beauty seemed the very irony of fate to Marjorie. The week following the freshm...

16. CHAPTER XVI.--CULTIVATING CLASS SPIRIT.

Following Jerry's ominous prophecy, nothing of any special moment occurred to mar the Five Travelers' peace of mind during their first week at Hamilton. So occupied were they in...

2. CHAPTER II.--A TALK WITH CAPTAIN AND A SURPRISE.

Presently clearance came. With a long sigh, Marjorie raised her head. She was just in time to see her mother wiping her own eyes and making a valiant effort to smile. It pulled...

23. CHAPTER XXIII.--A FRESHMAN REVOLT.

The committee of three, which included Portia Graham, Veronica and Ethel Laird, an Acasia House freshman, duly met on the following evening. After two hours of good hard work th...

8. CHAPTER VIII.--THE FIVE TRAVELERS.

"Hamilton, did you say? Lead me to it." Jerry Macy opened her eyes and peered through the car window with revived interest. For an hour or more she had been leaning back against...

19. CHAPTER XIX.--THE GIFTE OF BEAUTYE.

"Oh, I know what this is going to be," Helen Trent informed Jerry under her breath. "It's an old Celtic beauty contest. Away back in the history of the Celts, they set aside one...

21. CHAPTER XXI.--ON THE EVE OF THE GAME.

Following the basket ball try-out, which the Sanford five agreed was the tamest attempt at playing basket ball that they had ever witnessed, little of moment befell them as the...

12. CHAPTER XII.--UNEXPECTED CALLERS.

"Thank you." The caller stepped into the room, her two companions at her heels. She was a young woman of about the same height as Marjorie and not unlike her in coloring, save t...

18. CHAPTER XVIII.--A DISCOMFITED SAN SOUCIAN.

When, at eight o'clock, Leila Harper knocked on Marjorie's door, the vision who opened it brought a gleam of triumph to her bright blue eyes. Marjorie was wearing the frock of C...

25. CHAPTER XXV.--A NEW CONSPIRACY.

Not daring to break the appointment she had made with the freshman committee, Miss Reid met them the next afternoon in the gymnasium at the time she had set. She had been very c...

6. CHAPTER VI.--THE BOWKNOT OF AFFECTION.

That evening as Hal assisted the two girls into the tonneau of the limousine, he was of the romantic opinion that he had merely persuaded a couple of stray moonbeams to ride wit...

3. CHAPTER III.--THE REAL RONNY.

"Ronny Lynne, who would have expected to see you?" rejoiced Marjorie. "I can't believe my own eyes." Two welcoming arms embraced the beloved visitor, regardless of her dripping...

9. CHAPTER IX.--A DISAPPOINTMENT AND A FRIEND.

A moment later she was moving out of the train with her chums, smiling over her recent flat sense of disappointment. A glance out of a window on the opposite side of the car had...

15. CHAPTER XV.--THE GIRLS OF WAYLAND HALL.

In the lavatory she encountered the two students of whom Ronny had made inquiry regarding Baretti's. The black-haired girl looked at her, then nodded pleasantly. Marjorie return...

10. CHAPTER X.--AN AMIABLE SOPHOMORE.

"I cannot really help but feel that there must have been a mistake about our being ignored at the station." Marjorie made this hopeful remark just as the taxicab passed through...

5. CHAPTER V.--THE BREAKING UP OF THE OLD GUARD.

"This saying good-bye business is growing harrowing," complained Jerry one hazy September morning. She stood with her chums on the station platform, waving farewell to Florence...

7. CHAPTER VII.--ON THE THRESHOLD.

The day after Constance's party brought Marjorie her General. With her father at home, after a lengthy absence, the sorrow of leaving her dear ones came forward again. Marjorie...

24. CHAPTER XXIV.--THE FIRST VICTORY.

After two weeks of undiluted happiness at home, Marjorie's return to Hamilton was a wrench, keenly felt by all immediately concerned. According to her own ideas it was like a pl...

22. CHAPTER XXII.--A HARD ASSIGNMENT.

When the chimes rang out a melodious Angelus at six o'clock that evening, the sophomore-freshman game was over and the freshman had received the most complete whitewash on recor...

14. CHAPTER XIV.--A SILENT DECLARATION OF HOSTILITY.

Not very long after the Five Travelers returned to Wayland Hall the half-past ten o'clock bell sounded. Desirous of complying with the rules of the college from the start, they...

1. CHAPTER I.--A LONELY LOOKOUT.

"Oh, dear! I wish Jerry would come home! I want to see her! I've always missed her terribly during vacations, but this summer I've missed her more than ever. I'm simply starved...

11. CHAPTER XI.--SETTLING DOWN AT WAYLAND HALL.

Miss Remson, a small, wiry-looking woman with a thin, pleasant face and partially gray hair, bustled to a door, situated at the lower end of the room. Thrown open, it disclosed...