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]