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Show y'-.-yll'ST like every other quae -;l :j ter, the final week had been ' v I : a grand hurried scramble lo :P :i get work turned In on time. -' Helen was no different than hundreds of other college students. She let her win k ""'-tesi' go until the last minute ami r-yfS then wildly made up for STTctS lost time by burning lh. i,'H''J midnight oil. Christmas anticipation had helped to key Helen to the proper point of enthusiasm. en-thusiasm. .It was time that she lacked There she sat In the now deserted classroom. She pasted little bits of colored paper onto a gray mount fast and furiously. In due time' the hits of paper took on the semblance of a design. She was artistic, no doubt .' about that. Helen glanced at her watch, made a wry face and jabbed furiously at the colored paper again. Finally she got up and walked to the back of the room and stood looking out the windows. win-dows. She was conscious of the fact that beside her-stood a case. Idly, sh.-glanced sh.-glanced at the shelves of pottery. As her eye was lead down through the series of shelves It rested upon a partially par-tially open drawer In the lower part of the case. Her first thought was to close It In order to preserve the continuity of order or-der which prevailed pre-vailed In the case. However, her hand was stayed by curiosity as she was about to close the drawer, and Instead she found herself -opening it Her gaze was arrested by a number of things. Confusion reigned supreme. In the melee her were riveted upon two things in particular, there were two color charts, which were ex actly what she was going to have to make In the next couple of hours. She closed the drawer rather disgustedly disgust-edly and returned to her pasting. As the afternoon wore on Helen realized that after all there were but two alternatives. Either not finish the work nnd flunk the course or take, no, borrow the two charts and turn In the work for a grade. Then she made a dash for the drawer and dived Into its contents. She emerged with the two charts and proceeded to label them. Christinas was over, Helen was somewhat pensive as she sat in the ' pleasant drawing room of her home. J Today was but a breathing space, j and then another big day New J Year's, and after New Year's Day. what then? Helen dreaded to think It meant the dissolution of these gay revelries, study and routine. To be sure there were school dances, bn somehow right now they did not seem to have the same appeal. Along that same line of thought In . connection with the word study. Helen suddenly thought of her hurried departure de-parture and the effcrt it had been t" get the work In on time. Helen started. start-ed. Those charts suppose some one else had expected to turn those In for a grade before leaving at the end of cne quarter n . hadn't occurred to her before What wu1d the family say If this should be d!sw-ered d!sw-ered and reported report-ed to them? Helen's heart fairly stopped beating. Her fan "lly were Indeed quite respectah'f and could never stand for such an action. Would It be wise to lell th family and seek their advicp or1 uu II Mills! UK ari- tied entirely without their aid New Year's Day found Helen leaving leav-ing home for college. She was busy far Into the night after her arrival at the dormitory. Bright and early the next morning she was in her tfeslgn Instructor's office. "Miss Hastings," began Helen, "here are my two color charts which 1 should have turned in last qimrter" Miss Hastings proceeded to get out her class book. "Funny, but I have grades down for your two charts." "Well, will yon please grade then two and put It on your book, Miss Hastings ?" "Certainly, Cm It's queer how we do make some slips In recording our grades." Helen walked out the door buoyantly. buoy-antly. She could face the New Year squarely. ). 1?:6. Wtern New tfi'uuur lloU'fl ) |