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Julia Cloud, at her mother’s death, is free to choose between living the life of a drudge in her selfish sister’s household, or struggling along alone on insufficient finances. She is trying to make her decision when her niece and nephew from California put in an unexpected appearance, and they have a delightful suggestion for her future. They are coming east to college and propose taking her along to make a home for them and be a real mother to them, for though well-to-do, they are orphans. This plan they carry out and she plays her part wholly to their satisfaction. She feels a keen responsibility for their welfare and at first their lack of any religious ideals grieves her deeply. But they become interested in the Christian Endeavor society in a little church and gradually come to be leaders in it as well as in college life. There they make friendships which finally grow into deeper relations, and the story ends in two romances.
“It may be safely prophesied that Mrs Lutz, if she continues to spin more novels of the type of ‘Cloudy Jewel’ will doubtless lure into her fold a large proportion of the followers of Harold Bell Wright. Within the pages of ‘Cloudy Jewel’ one may find the telling and sure-fire ingredients of an American best seller.”
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“Mrs Lutz will beguile many hours for those who do not wish to be aroused or excited by what they read, and her books will have a wholesome influence wherever they are read.” K. O.
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LUTZ, GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL (MRS FLAVIUS J. LUTZ). Exit Betty. il *$1.75 (2c) Lippincott
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When Betty Stanhope met her bridegroom in the crowded church where the ceremony was to take place, to her horror she found he was not the man she had promised to marry. A timely fainting spell permitted her to escape from the church, and it was fortunate for her that she ran across Jane Carson just outside. Jane took the excited girl to her room where Betty told enough of the story to convince Jane that she was the victim of the cupidity of her scheming stepmother. Jane sent her to her mother in the country where Betty successfully eluded pursuit, until by Jane’s keenness, aided by her friend Jimmie and Jimmie’s employer, Warren Reyburn, Betty slipped forever from the clutches of those who had tried to rob her of her inheritance. Incidentally a double romance developed for her and Jane.