Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Marjorie Dean, College Senior

"Tomorrow evening at this time I'll be back in my old room at Hamilton. Tonight, the Country of College seems very far away. Tomorrow, it will be Sanford that seems so."

Chapters

20. CHAPTER XX--ON HAMILTON HIGHWAY

Rehearsals of "The Maid of Honor" had been begun before the holiday vacation. Returned from their fortnight's recreation, it did not take the illustrious cast long to pick up ag...

24. CHAPTER XXIV--VANDALISM

The March days came and went, cold and frost-bitten for the most part, and still Marjorie's letter to Miss Susanna met with no reply. Each day Marjorie wondered if she would be...

5. CHAPTER V--JUST FRESHIES

The Italian's announcement was received by his hearers with varying degrees of surprise. His sole object in inquiring as he had regarding the Sans appeared to be a desire to pro...

17. CHAPTER XVII--THE CULMINATION OF A ROMANCE

Marjorie made her usual loving onslaught upon her smiling general and captain who sat side by side on the living room davenport admiring her. It was the evening of Constance Ste...

22. CHAPTER XXII--A DISMAYED PLOTTER

The author of the mischief, Elizabeth Walbert, was not concerning herself over what had occurred on Saturday afternoon on Hamilton Highway. She had not the remotest idea as to t...

18. CHAPTER XVIII--BLACK DISAPPOINTMENT

Returned to Hamilton from the Thanksgiving holiday, the most important subject on Marjorie's horizon was that of the real estate transaction she and Robin Page hoped to close wi...

12. CHAPTER XII--FULL-FLEDGED PROMOTERS

"The very first thing to do, Robin, is to find out whether those properties used for boarding houses are for sale. There is no use in hoping for one little instant that Miss Sus...

8. CHAPTER VIII--FAITHLESS FRIENDS

With this exclamation of amazement, Lola Elster brought the small electric machine she was driving to a quick stop. The surprised cry was the result of being hailed by a young w...

1. CHAPTER I--A QUESTION FOR THE FUTURE

"Tomorrow evening at this time I'll be back in my old room at Hamilton. Tonight, the Country of College seems very far away. Tomorrow, it will be Sanford that seems so."

2. CHAPTER II--THE RETURN OF THE "TRAVELERS

Leila Harper stood at the top of the front steps of Wayland Hall just long enough to thus interrogate the party of four girls who were advancing toward her. With a jubilant Iris...

14. CHAPTER XIV--WARY FISH

Following on the heels of exultation, however, came disappointment. On the day before that set for their call at Mr. Cutler's office, Marjorie received a line from him stating t...

21. CHAPTER XXI--MISUNDERSTOOD

"For goodness' sake what brought you home in such a hurry?" Jerry came breezily into the room just before six o'clock to find Marjorie sitting by a window. In her hand was an op...

11. CHAPTER XI--A PATCHED-UP FRIENDSHIP

"A guilty conscience need no accuser." Elizabeth Walbert was well aware that she had been guilty of great discourtesy to Augusta Forbes. She had no intention of admitting it, th...

15. CHAPTER XV--INTERNAL WAR

Marjorie thought that she had never longed so much for a holiday to come as Thanksgiving. She was eager to go home and see her general and captain. Then there was Connie's weddi...

25. CHAPTER XXV--THE PROOF

The real bit of proof was nearer her hand then Augusta had dreamed. Not until the following evening did she have time to take apart the sticky effigy of herself. Then she ran he...

10. CHAPTER X--A WRATHFUL AWAKENING

"They were making fun of me, I _know_," she persisted. "You can't say anything that will make me change my opinion." This to Calista Wilmot, who had endeavored to reason with her.

16. CHAPTER XVI--ADMINISTRATING JUSTICE

Marjorie started down the hall on her difficult errand, wondering what to say first to Gussie Forbes. She hoped Miss Hart would answer the door. Were Gussie to do so she might e...

6. CHAPTER VI--THE REBUFF

"Leila, do you think we should have spoken to those freshies and extended the hand of friendship?" Marjorie inquired half doubtfully as the party, now seven strong, loitered alo...

7. CHAPTER VII--MAKING SURE PROGRESS

"Now what was the matter with them?" Jerry demanded, as she and Marjorie entered the dining room. "Were we properly snubbed? No mistake about it. They must have heard what I sai...

4. CHAPTER IV--A BIT OF NEWS

"Your room? Since when?" Jerry had forgotten all about the icy stare with which she intended to freeze this very person. She was gazing at the intruder with belligerence, not ha...

9. CHAPTER IX--CLEARING AWAY SNAGS

Marjorie had fully intended to fathom the mystery of the two freshmen's apparent grudge against Jerry and herself without delay. Pressure of college affairs, social and scholast...

3. CHAPTER III--THE INTRUDER

"You are not the only one." Leila shrugged her shoulders. "I do not like the sound of 'four from Alston Terrace.' There might be one of the four not quite to our taste."

19. CHAPTER XIX--AN UNRELENTING ENEMY

At a meeting of the Nineteen Travelers in Robin's room, a howl of indignation went up over the loss of the desired real estate. Discussion grew apace when Leslie Cairns' part in...

23. CHAPTER XXIII--"GETTING EVEN

Due to the unexpected quarrel which had sprung up between herself and Leslie, Elizabeth had gained no fruitful suggestions regarding ways and means of hazing from Leslie Cairns....

27. CHAPTER XXVII--CONCLUSION

It was late in the afternoon of Commencement Day and the original Nine Travelers, Robin and Phyllis Moore, were holding a brief farewell rendezvous in Marjorie's and Jerry's roo...

13. CHAPTER XIII--ON THE CREST OF HOPE

While Marjorie was sighing a little over the multiplicity of responsibilities which had fallen to her lot, Elizabeth Walbert was also a person with several irons in the fire. Sh...

26. CHAPTER XXVI--THE CITATION

Before Marjorie saw Miss Susanna, who had invited her in the note to come to Hamilton Arms to dinner on Friday, another surprise was in store for her. She had paid no special at...