"Likewise Semele." With the two volumes on her knees, she started to read up the references which the Dean wanted, when all at once she was conscious of some one who stood in the embrasured window at the west end of the room, looking at her.

For a moment Kit was absolutely speechless, not believing the evidence of her own eyes.

But the next moment Billie's own laugh, when he found out he had been discovered, startled her with its reality.
"Billie Ellis," she exclaimed, springing to her feet and scattering reference books and note paper helter-skelter.

"How on earth did you ever get way out here ?" Billie shook hands with her, coloring boyishly, as he always did at any display of emotion, and trying to act as if it were the most natural and ordinary thing in the world for him to appear at Delphi, Wis., when he was supposed to be at Washington in school.
"We got our test exams last week, and Stanley had to run out to Minnesota for the government, so he took me along to help him." "Billie, are you really after bugs and things--I mean, are you going to really be a naturalist ?" "I guess you'd kind of call it being a business naturalist," laughed Billie.

"I don't think I'll ever live in a shack on a mountainside, and write beautiful things about them, now that I know Stanley.