seemed so familiar. The resemblance is striking."

The four girls glanced from one to another, the same thought in
mind. Perhaps the mystery of Mabel Allison's parentage was to be
solved at last.

Those who have read "GRACE HARLOWE'S JUNIOR YEAR AT HIGH SCHOOL"
will recall how the Phi Sigma Tau became interested in Mabel
Allison, a young girl taken from an orphanage by Miss Brant, a
woman devoid of either gentleness or sympathy, who treated her
young charge with great cruelty.

It will be remembered that through the efforts of Grace and
Jessica, aided by Jessica's father, Miss Brant was forced to give
Mabel up, and she became a member of the Bright household, and the
especial protegee of the Phi Sigma Tau.

Grace and her friends had always believed Mabel to be a child of
good family. She had been picked up in the streets of New York
when a baby, and taken to the police station, where she had been
held for some time, but on remaining unclaimed, had been sent to
an orphanage outside New York City, where she had spent her life
until she had been brought to Oakdale by Miss Brant.

Although Mabel had been in the Bright household but a few months,
Jessica, who was motherless, had become deeply attached to her,
while Jessica's father was equally fond of the young girl.

She had spent her vacation with the Phi Sigma Tau, who were the
guests of Judge Putnam, a prominent Oakdale citizen, and his