Chapter I: Front Matter

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

PAGE

“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

Betty Wales, B. A.