Betty Wales, Sophomore

k, little sister. My head ached and I knew I ought to get som

een for a long, brisk tramp through the woods. Now they were swinging home in the frosty Dec

come for you," she said, stopping to wait for Miss Hale at the end of her run. "I do get so tired sometimes of seeing nobody

like college, d

y. "You and Nan told me the summer before I came here that all nice girls li

ho are your friends this year?" she pursue

e're in different houses now, some of us, and we've all made lot

glad you know her, Bett

tege, Miss Watson,

ount of Eleanor's literary triumph, her softened manne

t Miss Watson would ever make anything out of her college course. And do you see as muc

do you, Ethel? I'm so sorry. Nan didn't like her either.

for them, Betty,-and sometimes not then," added Ethel soberly. "The only way is to take all your opportunities, and then if you fail with one, as I did with Miss Watson, you may suc

s and questioning whether she and her set had ever spared a thought for anything beyond their own fun and ambitions and successes. She blushed guiltily in the dark,

"I wonder if she's told Betty anything about

he said, "I mustn't forget to ask you about Nan. Isn't that European trip of her

"she will. Her steame

said Miss Hale. "Isn't she goi

d them to stop, he wrote back that he didn't propose to come up here to be the only man among a thousand girls.

time, and Betty said good-night and hurried back t

had invited her that evening, "Nan's ship came in to-day, and I pretty nearly forgot all abou

at the door, and a maid held out a

he's coming to-night," she shrieked so loudly that the whole third floor heard

was provok

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into the wash-bowl and diving under the bed for her gold chain, which she

ey come," said Helen, practically. "Are you going

white gown and high-heeled satin slippers. Then she dropped down on the bed and gave a long d

are they go

y. "I ought to go out this

use dance? Oughtn't you to se

"Of course I ought. Alice has

o and tell the gentle Alice Waite that you'll be along later in the evening with your family. If you want your brother to fall in love with Harding, you must be sure to have him see that dance. Men always go crazy over girl dances.

helped Betty into a white linen suit, which is the Harding girl's regular compromise between street and evening dress, and somebody else telephoned to Miss Hale that Nan was coming. And the pleasant thing abo

alled her in, and five minutes later Will announced that he couldn't think of not occupying the room which Miss Brooks had been good enough to engage for him; and he and Mary went off to the gymnasium gallery, which is as near as man may come to the joys of a "girl dance" at Harding. There Betty promised to join them as soon as Miss Hale arrived to spend the evening with Nan. And Miss Hale had no sooner appeared than Nan telephoned for her trunks and made a dinner engagement that would keep her until the next night at least. In

before the one set for their departure, "I th

Miss Ayres, and I've got to have another skate with Miss Kittredge. She's a stunner on the ice. I say, Betty, you don'

gnation. "I guess that on the whole it'

t I behaved like a scholar and a

ion to me. Nan's gone off sleighing with Roberta, and you're only enduring my society until Dorothy

think that Nan and I would be so inconsiderate as to come do

Dorothy King's work?" inquired B

ies industriously. "I have only one date with Miss Brooks t

men will take to. Now I should have supposed that you'd like Nita Reese an

ooks and Miss King are good-lookers too. Miss Reese is a nice girl, but she's a little too quiet for me, and Miss Watson

ly. "Oh, here comes Dorothy," she added, glancing

etty's progress to the door. "You weren't in earn

popular family. I hope you understand that Mary Brooks and Dorothy King don't take the trouble to ent

nded Will. "Have we an

ut you and

ested Will. "Just you and I and one more for variety. Y

you really ca

r," called Will, strid

course. Will would like her-men always did. She had been tired and not in a mood to exert herself the night of

with her story just out in the 'Argus,'" reflecte

written sheets. "Studying my part for a little play we're giving next Saturday nig

iringly. "I'm awfully proud of knowing such a star. I read your story in the

o have so much said about it; but I for one am thoroughly tired of it. I'm going to tr

, and you didn't try at all then. Well," she added quickly, "you said I mustn't stay long, so I must

or formally, "and I'm sorry that I ca

dn't you learn your part this evening? It won't take you any longer

said Eleanor. "I could

ing to be her

've asked any one to

ted me to sit with them, and she'd be awfully vexed if I ran off. You know," went on E

id Betty

u see. Lil thinks she'll like me. She's very influential, and she doesn't

hook he

r. "She's just about as prominent as Bess Egerton. W

luential senior, why, please never think so again, Eleanor. I like her just as I l

, like all the rest of the world. Anyhow, if you haven't, I have; and I put future honors ahead o

He will be sorry, to

nk into it at every step. The raw wind blew her hair into her eyes. The world looked dull

n Betty, savagely. "Do yo

s," gasp

demand

u to get things,

not worth gettin

to get foolish things than jus

d and do nothing, as you call it, have friends and like them,

said Helen. "I don't think ambitious p

makes Helen mad when I write my papers any old way, while she's toiling along, trying to do her best. And she makes me cross by fussing so. She has one kind of ambition and Eleanor has another. I haven't