She dried it, ’twas grandly becoming to wear,
And she took a fine prize at the Dongerry fair.”
“Certainly some remarkable things have happened in Ireland,” Muriel Harding declared mischievously. “Please, Irish witch woman, may I pass the glasses?”
“You may; but spill not a drop out of one of them,” Leila cautioned. She picked up a cake knife from the table and flourished it over a huge black chocolate cake with thick white icing.
“You haven’t told me yet how it happens that Fifteen is vacant, Leila Greatheart,” Marjorie reminded.
“In a minute. Let me start Midget going with the cake and I will tell you anything,” was Leila’s rash promise.
“Whether you know it or not,” slyly added Ronny Lynne.
“Whether I know it or not,” Leila repeated firmly.
A burst of laughter rose from her six companions. The little group of seven girls who had been the first Travelers at Hamilton College five years before were gathered once more in the room occupied by Leila Harper and Vera Mason at Wayland Hall during that long happy period. It lacked only a few days of the formal opening of Hamilton College and the seven post-graduates were already back on the campus eager to begin what would undoubtedly be to them their most momentous year at Hamilton College.
Readers of the “Marjorie Dean High School Series,” “The Marjorie Dean College Series” and “The Marjorie Dean Post Graduate Series,” each comprising four volumes, have followed Marjorie through many of her girlhood adventures as a student, first at Sanford High School, later at Hamilton College, where she found her work and brought happiness to Miss Susanna Hamilton, the embittered great-niece of Brooke Hamilton, who was the distinguished founder of Hamilton College.