BETTY WALES & CO.

A STORY FOR GIRLS

by

MARGARET WARDE

AUTHOR OF

BETTY WALES FRESHMAN BETTY WALES SOPHOMORE BETTY WALES JUNIOR BETTY WALES SENIOR BETTY WALES B.A.

ILLUSTRATED BY EVA M NAGEL

THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA MCMIX

COPYRIGHT 1909 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY

INTRODUCTION

Many of the girls who will read this book have already made the acquaintance of Betty Wales, and know all about her adventures at Harding College, from her rollicking freshman days to the time when she was a “grave and reverend senior”—and was always being mistaken for a freshman, nevertheless. Mary Brooks graduated from Harding a year before Betty, and she always considered that this gave her the privilege of patronizing her friends in 19—, Betty’s class. Madeline joined 19— in its sophomore year, and Babbie Hildreth (she and her friends Babe and Bob were known collectively as the three B’s) was another of the shining lights of that famous class. She and Madeline and Betty planned the tea-room, though only in fun, during a trip abroad that came as a grand finale to their college days. You can read all about that in “Betty Wales, B. A.,” which also tells about Mary Brooks’s “impromptu” wedding. But you will have to go back to “Betty Wales, Senior,” to find out how Mary’s “little friends” discovered that she was interested in Professor Hinsdale. There are a lot of other things that you will want to know about Betty and her friends—if you like them—in “Betty Wales, Freshman,” “Betty Wales, Sophomore,” and “Betty Wales, Junior.”

Margaret Warde.

CONTENTS

I. Unpleasant Discoveries 9

II. Betty Wales, “M. A.” 24

III. That Tea-Room Again 39

IV. Plans and Parties 56

V. The Real Thing 74

VI. Eugenia Ford’s Luncheon 97

VII. Mary, the Perfect Patron 113

VIII. Young-Man-Over-the-Fence 128

IX. An Order for a Party 145

X. Unexpected Visitors 162

XI. The Advent of the Ploshkin 181

XII. A Tragic Disappearance 198

XIII. More “Side-Lines” 221

XIV. The Revolt of the “Why-Get-Ups” 236

XV. A Sea of Troubles 252

XVI. The Mystery Solved 270

XVII. A Magnate to the Rescue 291

XVIII. A Romance and a Burglary 307

XIX. The Amazing Mr. Smith and Other Amazements 329

XX. A Final Excitement 346

Illustrations

PAGE

“What Are You Doing Here?” Frontispiece

“How are We Going to Work?” 62

She Stopped the Girls as they Went Out 117

“This Tea-Shop Closes at Six” 148

True Stories of Dolls 190

They Intercepted the President 303

“Come Along Now” 325

Betty Wales & Co.

Betty Wales & Co.