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Betty Lee, Senior

Chapter 4 THE STORM

Word Count: 1881    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

ntentional ways, lives cross each other. Yet Betty wondered how she happened to come into the design in this instance. Her fathe

away off from home on the coast of Mai

The sea boomed and lashed the shore. Lightning flashed and thunder resounded or crashed with the bolts close at ha

hether the boys had gotten in safely from a fishing trip. "Don't worry," said Mr. Gwynne. "The sk

terested in her first big storm by the sea. "I wish

ing, we'll put on our ponchos and galoshes and go down. I

ts, the girls ran or slipped on rocks and sand to the shore, warned against going too close. "No big wave is go

n against rocks that even at high tide they had found at some distance from the line of water. Accordingly they re

aloshes, splashing through puddles, were in evidence. "Hello there!" cried a familiar voic

m and fell into step, guiding her around an immense puddle. "We tried to teleph

good luck, not so far away, and when we saw that there was going to be a storm, we came back. Perhaps we wouldn't have come if we

olyn, who with Kathryn was behind, ac

y by all means,"

a fish fry after

right as can be, Betty," said Chet

ing fared. The boys found their boat intact and uninjured, and when Carolyn found that they had intended

" continued Carolyn, "and have a fudge

tracted women whose "men-folks" had not come in. She overheard some woman assure them that they were "probably safe ashore somew

etch of Ted almost falling out of the boat in the effort to land a big fish. Then, on a piece of cardboard which Carolyn furnished, he made a poster of the fish fry. Art's imagination ran r

isper. "It's a secret. That is my pres

rveyed the result, with Marcella and another Kappa Upsilon. "Unless som

id Marcella. "We need that as a souvenir of t

ith affected timidity, "but

Marcella replied. "I could raise

a said this morning that she had jus

ot polite to tell family secr

money first, I ask th

Titania; you have wasted enough time in encouragement of art, with or without a capital letter. Let's tur

shore," said Ted Dorrance, "beside t

yet all of the young company were more or less

om the Gwynne cottage, where she could sit and watch the incoming rollers with their white crests. The girls had gone down early in the hope of finding new shells brought in by the storm. Betty had a little market bag full of pretty ones

of that? I'd like to remember it, too. I feel as if s

to happen, the fish

kno

e that somet

st by my 'g

thing else. How about nerves from st

up and we stayed in bed as late as w

ds. Ted had his big camera and took Betty and Kathryn on their rock as

were chefs and "chief cooks and bottle washers." Some spills occurred and a few fish were rather overdone; but that was better than not to be done enough. Pickles and rolls were "easier" than making sandwiches;

ing will turn up, girls," said Larry Waite. "If nothing else we can al

m. Carolyn went with Archie Penrose, Kathryn with Arthur, Gwen with Chet Dorrance and Peggy Pollard with Ju

active refreshments at the local ice-cream shop, the girls were duly taken home by boys that s

at the boys had not come in for another party. One did have to have a little rest sometimes. "The boys have something on hand tonight," said Gwen. "

be "as hoarse as a gull if she didn't make so much noi

Carolyn's, Gwen and Peggy had been put there; but the girls went back and forth and Gwen in gay pajamas sat on Betty's bed to talk for a

vers and never knew when Gwen, whispering to deaf

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