Betty Gordon in Washington; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great City

Betty always declared that she had just a single thought when it seemed that in another moment she would be t

, when it had almost reached the terrified girl, fear len

her shoulder. Her thoughts worked busily, trying to figure out a way to climb over or under the fence, and she had a lively fear of those terrible teeth n

urned and waved the garment frantically in the furious animal's face. Bewildered and confused, the mare stopped, and, as Betty cont

story. "Goodness, I certainly am glad you had the presence of mind to shake yo

uxurious hot bath and a night's sleep in the pretty guest room, took the trolley car into town with Mr. Brill, who at the station do

ong breath of relief. Surely there could be no more delays and in a comparatively few hours she might hope to be

ess hours in their berths. A good many of them were at breakfast in the dining car, and as there was no parlor

too sympathetically, for he had been waiting on the woman and her childr

comfortably as she coul

ttle voice, and a sticky han

away. "My land, if I ever live to get you children to your grandmother'

and drummed her small heels discontente

iant smile. She closed her magazine and found the mother gazing at her with

en have been perfect torments, and Lottie cried half the night. We're none of us used to traveling, and they're so mussed up and dirty I could cry

esult of taking a long journey with no help and little traveling experience. She was probably, and naturally, anxious that her children should impress their father's mother favorably, and it took little imagination to understand that in her home the young mother had been used to praise for her excellent management. Betty, adde

e I got on the train. If you are willing to trust the children with me, I'll amuse t

e like to travel with two children. Lottie upset her milk and Baby spilled her supper on the floor. And people just glare

d ancient story of the Three Bears. By the time a rested and radiant mother came back to them, for she had stolen a little time in the dressing room and rearranged her fair hair a

fter me, but he didn't know what to do. Usually there is a maid on this train, they told us, but she was taken sick, and there wasn't time to get any one to fill her

there was not much connected with a baby's welfare she did not know about. Many a Pi

hey'll take to it kindly, because I am new and that will lend to the

s till they lay straight and shining. Clean frocks were forthcoming, and two spick and span babies emerged to beam upon a transformed world no longer seen through a veil of tears. This new friend cou

Clenning, as the mother introduced herself, lived in the West and that this j

lenning, but he couldn't get away for a couple of months. He is to come after us and take us home. If he didn't, I'm sure I'd live East

ter came for the bags, but Betty carried the younger child to the car door and handed her down to the mother, who had gone first with Lottie. She saw a tall, stately, white

ounced the porter, coming up to

th the window adjusted at the most comfortable height. She did not hear the porter

all night? Well, she done fix those two kids up till you wouldn't know 'em, and cheered their mother up, too. And all jest as pretty and like a lady. That mighty fine lady in the red hat (I give her a seat o

g had been a protracted one with a corresponding fervency of gratitude for release; and at six o'clock that nig

t wish to go through the station out on the plaza, lest she make it more difficult for him to find her, and she was keenly disappointed that he had not been at the gate, for the train was half a

easily. "He couldn't miss me even in a crowd, bec

h with the station clock when a voice at