“Peggy, look at that sign!”

The room-mates were standing before the students’ bulletin board down in the note-room.

“It’s bridge, I suppose,” said Peggy idly.

“Bridge! No, it isn’t. Look! it isn’t that kind of auction.”

Breathlessly then they read the alluringly artistic letters, and made out with difficulty:

Auction!

Big auction.

Everybody come.

Beautiful clothes, evening dresses, lingerie, furs, everything for the wardrobe of the college girl to be auctioned off positively second-hand. Money must be paid on the spot.

—— The Weldon House Girls.

“That’s Gloria’s house,” said Peggy.