Betty Wales Senior

Betty Wales Senior, by Margaret Warde

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Title: Betty Wales Senior
Author: Margaret Warde
Release Date: March 14, 2007 [EBook #20821]
Language: English
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BETTY WALES SENIOR
by
MARGARET WARDE
author of
BETTY WALES, FRESHMAN BETTY WALES, SOPHOMORE BETTY WALES, JUNIOR BETTY WALES, B.A. BETTY WALES & CO. BETTY WALES ON THE CAMPUS BETTY WALES DECIDES
ILLUSTRATED BY EVA M. NAGEL
THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA 1919
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COPYRIGHT 1907 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY
Betty Wales, Senior
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INTRODUCTION
For the information of those readers who have not followed Betty Wales through the first three years of her college career, as described in "Betty Wales, Freshman," "Betty Wales, Sophomore," and "Betty Wales, Junior," it should be explained that most of Betty's little circle began to be friends in their freshman year, when they lived off the campus at Mrs. Chapin's, and Mary Brooks, the only sophomore in the house, ruled them with an autocratic hand. Betty found Helen Adams a comical and sometimes a trying roommate. Rachel Morrison and Katherine Kittredge were also at Mrs. Chapin's, and Roberta Lewis, who adored Mary Brooks and was desperately afraid of every one else in the house, though Betty Wales guessed that shyness was at the bottom of Roberta's haughty manner. Eleanor Watson was the most prominent member of the group that year and part of the next. Betty admired her greatly but found her a very difficult person to win as a friend, though in the end she proved worthy of all the trouble she had cost.
At the beginning of sophomore year the Chapin House girls moved to the campus, and "the B's" and Madeline Ayres, who explained that she lived in "Bohemia, New York," joined the circle. In their junior year Betty and her friends organized the "Merry Hearts" society, and Georgia Ames, a freshman friend of Madeline's, amused and mystified the whole college until she was finally discovered to be merely one of Madeline's many delightful inventions. But the joke was on the "Merry Hearts" when a real Georgia Ames entered college. It was when they were juniors, too, that the "Merry Hearts" took a vacation trip to the Bahamas and incidentally manoeuvred a romance for two of their faculty friends--which caused Mary Brooks to rename their society the Merry Match-makers.
And now if any one wishes to know what Betty Wales and her friends did after they left college, well--there's something about it in "Betty Wales, B.A.," "Betty Wales & Co.," "Betty Wales on the Campus," and "Betty Wales Decides."
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I "BACK TO COLLEGE AGAIN" 9 II A SENIOR CLASS-MEETING 25 III THE BELDEN HOUSE "INITIATION PARTY" 49 IV AN ADVENTUROUS MOUNTAIN DAY 69 V THE RETURN OF MARY BROOKS 86 VI HELEN ADAMS'S MISSION 106 VII ROBERTA "ARRIVES" 126 VIII THE GREATEST TOY-SHOP ON EARTH 143 IX A WEDDING AND A VISIT TO BOHEMIA 169 X TRYING FOR PARTS 189 XI A DARK HORSE DEFINED 211 XII CALLING ON ANNE CARTER 230 XIII GEORGIA'S AMETHYST PENDANT 250 XIV THE MOONSHINERS' BACON-ROAST 269 XV PLANS FOR A COOPERATIVE COMMENCEMENT 291 XVI A Hoop-Rolling and a Tragedy 308 XVII BITS OF COMMENCEMENT 325 XVIII THE GOING OUT OF 19-- 350 XIX "GOOD-BYE!" 366
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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The Stream of Girls Descended Frontispiece
"Here Are Some Perfectly Elegant Mushrooms" 76
"Oh, I Beg Your Pardon," 132
"I Do Care About Having Friends Like You," She Said 171
"Well, We've Found Our Shylock," He Said 224
The Girls Watched Her in Bewilderment 318
"Ladies, Behold the Preceptress of the Kankakee Academy" 373
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BETTY WALES, SENIOR
CHAPTER I
"BACK TO THE COLLEGE AGAIN"
"Oh, Rachel Morrison, am I too late for the four-ten train?"
Betty Wales, pink-cheeked and breathless, her yellow curls flying under her dainty lingerie hat, and her crisp white skirts held high to escape the dust of the station platform, sank down beside Rachel on a steamer trunk that the Harding baggage-men had been too busy or too accommodating to move away, and began to fan herself vigorously with a very small and filmy handkerchief.
"No, you're not late, dearie," laughed Rachel, pulling Betty's hat straight, "or rather the train is late, too. Where have you been?"
Betty smiled reminiscently. "Everywhere, pretty nearly. You know that cunning little freshman that had lost her trunks----"
"All those that I've interviewed have lost their trunks," interpolated Rachel.
Betty waved a deprecating hand toward the mountain of baggage that was piled up further down the platform.
"Oh, of course, in that lovely mess. Who wouldn't? But this girl lost