Grace Harlowes First Year at Overton College

Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College

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GRACE HARLOWE'S FIRST YEAR AT OVERTON COLLEGE
by
JESSIE GRAHAM FLOWER, A. M.
Author of The Grace Harlowe High School Girls Series, Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College, Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College, Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College.

[Illustration: J. Elfreda Had Evidently Found Friends. Frontispiece.]

Philadelphia Henry Altemus Company Copyright, 1914, by Howard E. Altemus

CONTENTS

Chapter Page
I. Off To College 7
II. J. Elfreda Introduces Herself 15
III. First Impressions 29
IV. Miriam's Unwelcome Surprise 44
V. An Interrupted Study Hour 55
VI. A Disturbing Note 62
VII. Grace Takes Matters Into Her Own Hands 72
VIII. The Sophomore Reception 84
IX. Disagreeable News 95
X. The Making of The Team 102
XI. Anne Wins a Victory 109
XII. Ups and Downs 118
XIII. Grace Turns Electioneer 125
XIV. An Invitation and a Misunderstanding 132
XV. Greeting Old Friends 142
XVI. Thanksgiving with the Southards 150
XVII. Christmas Plans 161
XVIII. Basketball Rumors 171
XIX. A Game Worth Seeing 181
XX. Grace Overhears Something Interesting 190
XXI. An Unheeded Warning 206
XXII. Turning the Tables 214
XXIII. Virginia Changes Her Mind 227
XXIV. Good-bye to their Freshman Year 239

Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College

CHAPTER I
OFF TO COLLEGE
"Do you remember what you said one October day last year, Grace, when we stood on this platform and said good-bye to the boys?" asked Anne Pierson.
"No, what did I say?" asked Grace Harlowe, turning to her friend Anne.
"You said," returned Anne, "that when it came your turn to go to college you were going to slip away quietly without saying good-bye to any one but your mother, and here you are with almost half Oakdale at the train to see you off to college."
"Now, Anne, you know perfectly well that people are down here to see you and Miriam, too," laughed Grace. "I'm not half as much of a celebrity as you are."
Grace Harlowe, Miriam Nesbit and Anne Pierson stood on the station platform completely surrounded by their many friends, who, regardless of the fact that it was half-past seven o'clock in the morning, had made it a point to be at the station to wish them godspeed.
"This is the second public gathering this week," remarked Miriam Nesbit, who, despite the chatter that was going on around her, had heard Grace's laughing remark.
"I know it," agreed Grace. "There was just as large a crowd here when Nora and Jessica went away last Monday. Doesn't it seem dreadful that we are obliged to be separated? How I hated to see the girls go. And we won't be together again until Christmas."
"Oh, here come the boys!" announced Eva Allen, who, with Marian Barber, had been standing a little to one side of the three girls.
At this juncture four smiling young men hurried through the crowd of young people and straight to the circle surrounding the three girls, where they were received with cries of: "We were afraid you'd be too late!" and, "Why didn't you get here earlier?"
"We're awfully sorry!" exclaimed David Nesbit. "We had to wait for Hippy. He overslept as usual. We threw as much as a shovelful of gravel against his window, but he never stirred. Finally we had to waken his family and it took all of them to waken him."
"Don't you believe what David Nesbit says," retorted Hippy. "Do you suppose I slept a wink last night knowing that the friends of my youth were about to leave me?" Hippy sniffed dolefully and buried his face in his handkerchief.
"Now, now, Hippy," protested Miriam. "If you insist on shedding crocodile tears, although I don't believe you could be sad long enough to shed even that kind, we shall feel that you are glad to get rid of us."
"Never!" ejaculated Hippy fervently. "Oh, if I only had Irish Nora here to stand up for me! She wouldn't allow any one, except herself, to speak harsh and cruel words to me."
"We shan't be able to speak many more words of any kind to you," said Miriam, consulting her watch. "The train is due in ten minutes."
When Grace Harlowe and her three dear friends, Nora O'Malley, Jessica Bright and Anne Pierson, began to make