BETTY WALES, B. A.

A STORY FOR GIRLS

BY MARGARET WARDE

Author of “Betty Wales, Freshman” “Betty Wales, Sophomore” “Betty Wales, Junior” “Betty Wales, Senior”

Illustrated by

EVA M. NAGEL

The Penn Publishing Company PHILADELPHIA MCMVIII

COPYRIGHT 1908 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY

Introduction

When I first knew Betty Wales she was a freshman at Harding College, with a sedate, comical roommate named Helen Chase Adams, and a host of good friends, who stood by her and one another all through the four years of their college course. Mary Brooks—afterward Mrs. Hinsdale—was a sophomore when Betty entered college, but the others, the three B’s, Roberta Lewis, Eleanor Watson, Rachel Morrison, and Katherine Kittredge,—all belonged to the “finest class” of 19—. So did Madeline Ayres, though she was a year late in joining it and felt obliged to make up for lost time by being a particularly lively and loyal Hardingite during her abbreviated course there. Georgia Ames first appeared in 19—’s junior year, and joined “The Merry Hearts,” a society that Betty and her friends had organized. But Georgia the first, as Madeline used to call her, was only a figment of Madeline’s imagination; it was a delightful coincidence when, at the end of the year, a real Georgia Ames appeared to step into the place left vacant by her departed namesake, whose short but strenuous career at Harding had made them both famous.

All these things and many others may be found in the four books entitled respectively “Betty Wales, Freshman,” “Betty Wales, Sophomore,” “Betty Wales, Junior,” and “Betty Wales, Senior.” This story was written because some of Betty’s friends were not satisfied to leave her at the end of her senior year, but wished to hear what she did next. If any of them still want to know what happened to her after she came back from her trip abroad, why, perhaps some day they may.

Margaret Warde.

Contents

I. An Impromptu Wedding—and Other Impromptus 9

II. A Going-away Party—Harding Style 27

III. Off to Bonnie Scotland 44

IV. A Disillusionment Made Good 66

V. A Ruin and a Reunion 88

VI. Scotch Mists 110

VII. The Ghost of Dunstaffnage 129

VIII. Betty Discovers Her Specialty 146

IX. Buying a Duke 166

X. The Gay Ghosts of London 185

XI. Betty Wales, Detective 204

XII. Jasper J. Morton Again 221

XIII. A “Near-Adventure” 236

XIV. A Real Adventure 258

XV. A Noisy Parisian Ghost 273

XVI. The Progress of Romance 293

XVII. Telling the Magnate 311

XVIII. Home Again 329

Illustrations

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“Now Come and Label Her Dresses” Frontispiece

“It’s Only for Her I’m Carin’” 57

“Come Up, All of You” 104

“Four and Six!” 179

“I Have My Dictionary” 228

The Girls Pounced Upon Her 284

Something Had Happened in the Second Boat 322

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