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Yesterday girlhood offered Teola Graves happy hours of peaceful ht the wo forces of which she had known nothing

If Dan were only glad that she loved him, if he loved her in return Suddenly tears welled into the dark eyes; Teola Graves hid her face froot in sleep

Teola's next hour with her lover was theone of her life Dan took her hands in silence, and the seriousness of his face bespoke his heart pain

"Sweetheart, is there anything in all the world that I can say to you to !"

"Only say that you do love me, Dan," breathed Teola, "and--and--"

"Don't turn your eyes away from me, sweetheart--love you, Teola? I'll study so hard, dearest, and when I finish college we'll get ive me and have faith inlips--and Teola buried her flushed face upon the broad breast of Dan Jordan and was happy

Frederick Graves had been made president of the fresh the "Cranium" fraternity He was considered by most of his fellow students a serious, earnest worker and had been taken many ti plans for the development of the society

In past years at the end of every January, the freshmen had held a banquet in the opera-house of the city This event called forth practical jokes of all descriptions upon the first-yearer students over the outcome of the one important event of the year It had also been the custom to try to capture the president of the freshman class and hold hi his opening speech impossible The dread that they should lose their leader beca the banquet holders as the days advanced, and extensive plans had been made to protect Frederick Graves from his class enemies For one whole month previous he had not been allowed to walk alone about the town, and it had been ordered that he should sleep at the fraternity house instead of at the Rectory, in order that the young president ainst any surprise concocted by the sopho at the Cranium Society several freshmen were seated in the billiard-room