The unhappy taking-off of Georgia Ames supplied Harding College with conversation for a good deal more than the proverbial nine days. Campus dinner-tables buzzed with anecdotes about her, a good many of which "The Merry Hearts" themselves had never heard before. People who knew the "English Essayists" chapter of her experiences had not heard the Yale chapter. Girls who had laughed over the discomfiture of the Westcott House senior, who had eventually paid a high price for her readiness in running off with Bob's violets, listened eagerly to the story of Babe's lace handkerchief. And some of them went forthwith to interview the janitor, thereby adding a new episode. For the janitor was a firm believer in ghosts and other apparitions and saw no reason why Madeline Ayres, whose interest in Irish fairy-tales had gained his worshipful admiration, should not possess a shadowy double if she chose to. He had a well-grounded distrust of the B's and vehemently pooh-poohed their matter-of-fact explanations of Georgia's movements.