Chapter I: Front Matter

By Clara Louise Burnham

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HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK

CLEVER BETSY

CLEVER BETSY

A Novel

by
Clara Louise Burnham

With Illustrations by
Rose O’Neill

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1910

COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published September 1910_

CONTENTS

I. OPENING THE COTTAGE 1
II. MISTRESS AND MAID 16
III. IRVING BRUCE 27
IV. MRS. POGRAM CONFIDES 38
V. ROSALIE VINCENT 47
VI. THE LAST STAGE 62
VII. THE NATIONAL PARK 75
VIII. THE BLONDE HEAVER 87
IX. THE FOUNTAIN HOUSE 102
X. ON THE RIVERSIDE 117
XI. FACE TO FACE 131
XII. THE FAITHFUL GEYSER 150
XIII. THE HEIRESS 160
XIV. THE LOOKOUT 176
XV. AN EXODUS 189
XVI. BETSY’S GIFT 202
XVII. SUNRISE 217
XVIII. HOMEWARD BOUND 232
XIX. MRS. BRUCE’S HEADACHE 246
XX. BETSY’S APPEAL 258
XXI. A RAINY EVENING 270
XXII. THE WHITE DOVE 282
XXIII. THE DANCE 296
XXIV. THE CLASH 313
XXV. WHITE SWEET PEAS 327
XXVI. IN BETSY’S ROOM 338
XXVII. BETSY RECEIVES 355
XXVIII. GOOD-BY, SUMMER 369
XXIX. THE NEW YEAR 387

CLEVER BETSY