Chapter I: Front Matter

BETTY WALES
ON THE CAMPUS

_by_
MARGARET WARDE

_author of_

BETTY WALES, FRESHMAN
BETTY WALES, SOPHOMORE
BETTY WALES, JUNIOR
BETTY WALES, SENIOR
BETTY WALES, B.A.
BETTY WALES & CO.
BETTY WALES DECIDES

ILLUSTRATED BY
EVA M. NAGEL

THE PENN PUBLISHING
COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA
1920

COPYRIGHT
1910 BY
THE PENN
PUBLISHING
COMPANY

Betty Wales on the Campus

Introduction

MOST of the girls in this story first became acquainted with each other in their freshman year at Harding College, and the story of their four jolly years together and their trip to Europe after graduation is told in “Betty Wales, Freshman,” “Betty Wales, Sophomore,” “Betty Wales, Junior,” “Betty Wales, Senior,” and “Betty Wales, B. A.”

It was during this memorable trip that Betty met Mr. Morton, the irascible but generous railroad magnate. “Betty Wales & Co.” describes how Betty and her “little friends” opened the successful “Tally-ho Tea-Shop” in Harding, and what came of it. Babbie Hildreth’s engagement to Mr. Thayer was one result, and another was that Mr. Morton gave to Harding College the money for a dormitory for the poorer girls. Betty’s “smallest sister” Dorothy was also in Harding attending Miss Dick’s school, and it was for her that Eugenia Ford invented the delightful Ploshkin. Somebody modeled one, and as little plaster ploshkins were soon being sold everywhere, it turned out to be one of the Tally-ho’s most popular and profitable features. Betty had thought she would leave the shop to Emily Davis and return to her family, but this story tells how she found herself again on the Harding Campus. And finally, how Betty Wales, with the aid of one other important person, chose her career and left Harding, will be found in “Betty Wales Decides.”

MARGARET WARDE.

Contents

I. “TENDING UP” AGAIN 9
II. ARCHITECT’S PLANS--AND OTHERS 29
III. THE CULT OF THE B. C. A.’S 47
IV. THE GRASSHOPPER WAGER 62
V. REINFORCEMENTS 78
VI. FRISKY FENTON’S MARTYRDOM 98
VII. THE DOLL WAVE 116
VIII. MORE ARCHITECT’S PLANS, AND A MYSTERY 140
IX. MOVING IN 158
X. GHOSTS AND INSPIRATIONS 174
XI. WHAT CHRISTMAS REALLY MEANS 191
XII. RAFAEL PROPOSES 213
XIII. GENIUS ARRIVES 229
XIV. AS A BULL PUP ORDAINS 249
XV. A GAME OF HIDE-AND-SEEK--WITH
“FEATURES” 268
XVI. THE MYSTERY DEEPENS 285
XVII. THE MYSTERY SOLVED 299
XVIII. FRISKY FENTON’S FOLLY 318
XIX. ARCHITECT’S FINAL PLANS--CONSIDERED 337

Illustrations

PAGE

THEY WERE ALL THERE _Frontispiece_
“I’M SORRY I WAS LATE” 11
SITTING DOWN TO REST ON A BAGGAGE TRUCK 84
“YOU MUST TAKE OFF YOUR APRON” 160
JUST AS THEY HAD GIVEN HER UP 241
THE OTHERS STOOD AROUND LISTENING 282
“WE’LL FIND ’EM, MISS,” HE ASSURED HER 327

Betty Wales On The Campus