Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Marjorie Dean, College Junior

"Remember; we are to begin with the 'Serenata.' Follow that with 'How Fair Art Thou' and 'Hymn to Hamilton.' Just as we are leaving, sing 'How Can I Leave Thee, Dear?' We will fade away on the last of that. Want to make any changes in the programme?"

Chapters

16. CHAPTER XVI--OUT OF THE PAST

The invited guests were in scarcely more of an anticipatory flutter than Miss Susanna herself. She had broken down her prejudice against girls partly out of curiosity to see and...

15. CHAPTER XV--PLANNING FOR OTHERS

While the Sans were experiencing the discomfort of internal friction, the Lookouts and their friends were traveling the pleasant ways of harmony and peace. The sophomores had so...

10. CHAPTER X--HAMILTON ARMS AND ITS OWNER

"Well, of all things!" Marjorie could not get over her undiluted amazement. For a second it struck her that she might again be the victim of a hoax. Perhaps an unkindly-minded p...

8. CHAPTER VIII--A FROLIC AT SILVERTON HALL

The "simpletons" finished their dinner amid much merriment, quite unconscious of their lack of sense, and hustled up to their rooms to dress for the party. Leila, Vera, Helen, H...

18. CHAPTER XVIII--WHEN FRIENDS BECOME FOES

Lucy's secretaryship for Doctor Matthews lasted only three days. During that short space of time she found out nothing special, bearing on the wrong to Miss Remson which she lon...

2. CHAPTER II--UNDER THE SEPTEMBER STARS

"Now why couldn't you have stayed upstairs like nice children and praised our modest efforts in your behalf instead of prancing down stairs to head us off?" inquired Phyllis in...

13. CHAPTER XIII--WELL MATCHED

Leslie's first crafty move toward determining Dulcie Vale's treachery was in the direction of Elizabeth Walbert. The latter had promised to return the next week the twenty-five...

22. CHAPTER XXII--PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE

The approach of the Christmas holidays called a halt in the internal war which raged between the Sans and their two betrayers. Having delivered her ultimatum to Elizabeth Walber...

27. CHAPTER XXVII--CONCLUSION

The Nine Travelers had gathered in her room for a last intimate talk. Tomorrow would be Commencement. Directly after the exercises were over the nine had agreed to meet for a la...

4. CHAPTER IV--A CONGENIAL PAIR

"Well, here we are at the same old stand again." Leslie Cairns yawned, stretched upward her kimono-clad arms and clasped them behind her head. Lounging opposite her, in a deep,...

1. CHAPTER I--A MUSICAL WELCOME

"Remember; we are to begin with the 'Serenata.' Follow that with 'How Fair Art Thou' and 'Hymn to Hamilton.' Just as we are leaving, sing 'How Can I Leave Thee, Dear?' We will f...

5. CHAPTER V--A LUCKY MISHAP

The serenading expedition of the next night was the beginning of a succession of similar gaieties for the Lookouts. As Hamilton continued to gather in her own for the college ye...

17. CHAPTER XVII--LUCY'S NEWS

On the heels of their memorable visit to Hamilton Arms came the added joy of going home for Thanksgiving. All the pleasure that the occasion afforded was crowded into those four...

25. CHAPTER XXV--WHEN THE SWORD FELL

The longer Dulcie pondered the matter, the more she became convinced she could do more damage by letter than to go to the doctor in person. Elizabeth Walbert had several times a...

9. CHAPTER IX--HER "DEAREST" WISH

It did not need Elaine's party to cement more securely the friendship which existed between the Silvertonites and the group of Wayland Hallites who had co-operated with them so...

21. CHAPTER XXI--"DISPOSING" OF BESS

Leslie's ominous prediction regarding herself was not idle. She awoke the next morning signally out of sorts. Though she had declared to Natalie she did not care to discuss the...

11. CHAPTER XI--COMPARING NOTES

Tea over, Jonas removed the tea-table and Miss Susanna waved her guest toward a leather-covered arm chair. Changing her own chair for one corresponding to Marjorie's, Miss Hamil...

23. CHAPTER XXIII--AN AMAZING PROPOSAL

"I--are you alone, Miss Dean? I would like to talk with you, but not unless you are alone." Dulcie spoke just above a whisper, peering past Marjorie into the room so far as she...

6. CHAPTER VI--THE LAST OF THE HAMILTONS

The man promptly brought the machine to a slow stop. He was too well acquainted with the whims of "them girls from the college" to exhibit surprise. Having paid her fare on ente...

19. CHAPTER XIX--IN THE INTEREST OF PRIVATE SAFETY

"I have not," shrieked Dulcie. "I don't know what you are talking about. You're crazy if you say I told all that stuff you mentioned. Why don't you put the blame where it belong...

24. CHAPTER XXIV--"THERE'S MANY A SLIP

Dulcie's parting fling drove away Marjorie's righteous indignation. It was so utterly childish. She smiled as she arranged her books and papers to her mind and sat down to study...

20. CHAPTER XX--A BITTER PILL

Among others, Jerry had gone to the door to ascertain what was happening in the house of such an unusual nature. Two or three moments of intent listening and she had returned to...

26. CHAPTER XXVI--MAY DAY EVENING

For two days, in a second floor class room at Hamilton Hall, a real tribunal, consisting of Doctor Matthews and the college Board, convened. Very patiently the body of dignified...

12. CHAPTER XII--A TRAITOR IN CAMP

Leslie Cairns' opinion of the matter coincided with Jerry's, though the latter could not know it. To become involved in a roadside argument with an irate taxicab driver did not...

7. CHAPTER VII--TWO KINDS OF GIRLS

"You are a dandy," was Jerry's greeting as Marjorie walked into their room at ten minutes past six. "Where were you? Lucy said you ruined your blue pongee with some horrid old c...

14. CHAPTER XIV--SANS' MERCY

Despite Leslie's denials, Elizabeth left her room only half convinced. Being as lost to honor as Leslie, she was also as shrewd. She made a vow to keep her own counsel thereafte...

3. CHAPTER III--A VERANDA ENCOUNTER

It lacked but a few minutes of eleven o'clock when the serenading party said goodnight to Signor Baretti and trooped off toward the campus. The usually taciturn Italian had surp...