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  THE STREAM OF GIRLS DESCENDED]

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  BETTY WALES SENIOR

  by

  MARGARET WARDE

  _author of_

  BETTY WALES, FRESHMANBETTY WALES, SOPHOMOREBETTY WALES, JUNIORBETTY WALES, B.A.BETTY WALES & CO.BETTY WALES ON THE CAMPUSBETTY WALES DECIDES

  ILLUSTRATED BY EVA M. NAGEL

  THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA 1919

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  COPYRIGHT 1907 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY

  Betty Wales, Senior

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  INTRODUCTION

  For the information of those readers who have not followed Betty Walesthrough the first three years of her college career, as described in"Betty Wales, Freshman," "Betty Wales, Sophomore," and "Betty Wales,Junior," it should be explained that most of Betty's little circle beganto be friends in their freshman year, when they lived off the campus atMrs. Chapin's, and Mary Brooks, the only sophomore in the house, ruledthem with an autocratic hand. Betty found Helen Adams a comical andsometimes a trying roommate. Rachel Morrison and Katherine Kittredgewere also at Mrs. Chapin's, and Roberta Lewis, who adored Mary Brooksand was desperately afraid of every one else in the house, though BettyWales guessed that shyness was at the bottom of Roberta's haughtymanner. Eleanor Watson was the most prominent member of the group thatyear and part of the next. Betty admired her greatly but found her avery difficult person to win as a friend, though in the end she provedworthy of all the trouble she had cost.

  At the beginning of sophomore year the Chapin House girls moved to thecampus, and "the B's" and Madeline Ayres, who explained that she livedin "Bohemia, New York," joined the circle. In their junior year Bettyand her friends organized the "Merry Hearts" society, and Georgia Ames,a freshman friend of Madeline's, amused and mystified the whole collegeuntil she was finally discovered to be merely one of Madeline's manydelightful inventions. But the joke was on the "Merry Hearts" when areal Georgia Ames entered college. It was when they were juniors, too,that the "Merry Hearts" took a vacation trip to the Bahamas andincidentally manoeuvred a romance for two of their faculty friends--whichcaused Mary Brooks to rename their society the Merry Match-makers.

  And now if any one wishes to know what Betty Wales and her friends didafter they left college, well--there's something about it in "BettyWales, B.A.," "Betty Wales & Co.," "Betty Wales on the Campus," and"Betty Wales Decides."

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  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER PAGE

  I "BACK TO COLLEGE AGAIN" 9 II A SENIOR CLASS-MEETING 25 III THE BELDEN HOUSE "INITIATION PARTY" 49 IV AN ADVENTUROUS MOUNTAIN DAY 69 V THE RETURN OF MARY BROOKS 86 VI HELEN ADAMS'S MISSION 106 VII ROBERTA "ARRIVES" 126 VIII THE GREATEST TOY-SHOP ON EARTH 143 IX A WEDDING AND A VISIT TO BOHEMIA 169 X TRYING FOR PARTS 189 XI A DARK HORSE DEFINED 211 XII CALLING ON ANNE CARTER 230 XIII GEORGIA'S AMETHYST PENDANT 250 XIV THE MOONSHINERS' BACON-ROAST 269 XV PLANS FOR A COOPERATIVE COMMENCEMENT 291 XVI A Hoop-Rolling and a Tragedy 308 XVII BITS OF COMMENCEMENT 325 XVIII THE GOING OUT OF 19-- 350 XIX "GOOD-BYE!" 366

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  ILLUSTRATIONS

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  The Stream of Girls Descended _Frontispiece_

  "Here Are Some Perfectly Elegant Mushrooms" 76

  "Oh, I Beg Your Pardon," 132

  "I Do Care About Having Friends Like You," She Said 171

  "Well, We've Found Our Shylock," He Said 224

  The Girls Watched Her in Bewilderment 318

  "Ladies, Behold the Preceptress of the Kankakee Academy" 373

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