MARJORIE DEAN
COLLEGE SENIOR
By PAULINE LESTER
Author of
“Marjorie Dean, College Freshman,” “Marjorie Dean,
College Sophomore,” “Marjorie Dean, College Junior,”
and
The Marjorie Dean High School Series
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers—New York
THE
Marjorie Dean College Series
A Series of Stories for Girls 12 to 18 Years of Age
By PAULINE LESTER
Marjorie Dean, College Freshman Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore Marjorie Dean, College Junior Marjorie Dean, College Senior |
Copyright, 1922
By A. L. BURT COMPANY
MARJORIE DEAN, COLLEGE SENIOR
Made in “U. S. A.”
3MARJORIE DEAN, COLLEGE SENIOR.
CHAPTER I—A QUESTION FOR THE FUTURE
“Tomorrow evening at this time I’ll be back inmy old room at Hamilton. Tonight, the Countryof College seems very far away. Tomorrow, it willbe Sanford that seems so.”
Marjorie Dean smiled frankly up into HalMacy’s rather sober face. The strains of a slowwaltz were throbbing to an harmonic end. Hal andhis sister Jerry were giving a farewell hop in honorof the five Lookouts who were to return to HamiltonCollege the next day. Hal was thinking, as helooked down at Marjorie’s lovely, upraised facethat no one, not even her father and mother, wouldmiss her as he should.
“And who are you going to miss most?” heasked boldly, his eyes twinkling, nevertheless. “If4you say myself, I shall be so flustered. You neversay nice things to me, you know.”
“I’m not going to begin now,” Marjorie returnedmischievously. “I shall miss General and Captainmost, of course.”
“And me next most. I’ll say it for you, sinceyou have no regard for my tender feelings. I thinkI ought to be ranked next to General and Captain,”Hal persisted audaciously.
“You do come next to them Hal—you and Connieand Laurie. The old guard are next dearest,”Marjorie hastily assured. “Oh, dear, the waltz isending! I wish it would begin all over again. Ilike waltzing much better than fox trotting or one-stepping.And I love that particular waltz. It iscalled ‘In Sunny Gardens,’ and there is a certainsuggestion of the title in the m