" Well, be good boys, now, and read the papers and look at pictures until I finish this letter. Then I will tell you." They surveyed him keenly. They evidently judged that the news was worth hearing, but, obediently, they said nothing. Ultimately the minister affixed a rapid signature to the letter, and turning, looked at the students with a smile. " Haven't heard the news, eh ?" "No, Sir." "Well, Marjory Wainwright is engaged to marry Coleman." The minister was amazed to see the effect of this announcement upon the three students. He had expected the crows and cackles of rather absurd merriment with which unbearded youth often greets, such news. But there was no crow or cackle. One young man blushed scarlet and looked guiltily at the floor. With a great effort he muttered: " Shes too good for him." Another student had turned ghastly pate and was staring. It was Peter Tounley who relieved the minister's mind, for upon that young man's face was a broad jack-o-lantern grin, and the minister saw that, at any rate, he had not made a complete massacre. Peter Tounley said triumphantly: "I knew it ! " The minister was anxious over the havoc he had wrought with the two other students, but slowly the colour abated in one face and grew in the other. To give them opportunity, the minister talked busily to Peter Tounley. "And how did you know it, you young scamp ?" Peter was jubilant. " Oh, -I knew it! I knew it I I am very clever." The student who had blushed now addressed the minister in a slightly strained voice. " Are you positive that it is true, Mr. Gordner?," " I had it on the best authority," replied the minister gravely. The student who had turned pale said: " Oh, it's true, of course." " Well," said crudely the one who had blushed, she's a great sight too good for Coleman or anybody like him. That's all I've got to say." " Oh, Coleman is a good fellow," said Peter Tounley, reproachfully. " You've no right to say that-exactly. You don't know where you'd. be now if it were not for Coleman." The, response was, first, an angry gesture. " Oh, don't keep everlasting rubbing that in. For heaven's sake, let up. - Supposing I don't. know where I'd be now if,it were not for Rufus Coleman? What of it? For the rest of my life have I got to--" The minister saw. that this was the embittered speech of a really defeated youth, so, to save scenes, he gently ejected the trio. " There, there, now ! Run along home like good boys. I'll be busy until luncheon. And I -dare say you won't find Coleman such a bad chap."' In the corridor, one of the students said offensively to Peter Tounley : " Say, how in hell did you find out all this so early ? "