Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-07-29
Evening Story.
sRokEh-HEARTED BETTY.
BY Harmony Weller.
Copyright, 1918, BY the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)

IS
Betty happened to be 1t Atlantic
City because she WAS IN obe4ie0a
daughter and her parents considered
the sand and the sea splendid tonics
for girl who thought she could
never be happy again. Betty firmly
believed her heart to be broken.
Wendell Berger was In Atlantic
City because he was an obedient
son and his parents and doctors
considered that he needed few
bracing broaths Of sea air. Berger
himself was rather bored that IL.
until Betty came down to breakfast
in the great hotel dining room.
AS soon as Berger realized the
effect that Betty was going to have
upon him he sent posthaste for Carl
Watterson. He could not, he knew,
without masculine support with
stand the batteries In Betty's eyes.
Berger was bashful- to
such q degree that he scarcely dared
glance in the girls direction until
Watterson had arrived and was sitting
beside him 1t the dining table.
AS for Betty. she liked Wendell
Berger the moment her eyes met his.
He was so like, 20 dearly like, one
whom she had loved and lost. Per-
hapy 1t was the bit OF pain III her wide
eyes that had first attracted Berger
to- her.
And girl.like. it was to Carl Wat
terson that she directed most OF her
open glances. The surreptitious ones
fell around and about the bashful
Berger and warmed him with their
unconscious hattery.
IAN austere aunt covered ut the
two men who had brought conscious
flush into the girls cheeks. The sea,
con was young and It was not dim.
cult to discover the culprits.
Betty glanced sideways at her aunt's
uncomprising profile and q sigh
escaped her lips. A second later they
curved In half smile. and 1t was
Watterson and not Berger who I'm.
derstood the meaning OF that smile.
."Auntie, DEAR" Betty suggested. as
they left the dining room, couldn't
we ask the waiter to put us at that
little table behind those two gentle.
men? dislike having to face any
one 30 constantly"
Auntie Dear smiled rather super.
ior smile in the direction OF Berger
and Watterson. Since they had had
so little effect upon her beautiful
niece that she was DESTROYS OF chang.
ing her seat, Mrs. Lee could afford
to be tolerant. After all, perhaps the
hurt Of Betty's recent disastrous love
affair had been deeper than any one
supposed.
Thus 1t was that the next meal in
the dining room found Betty and
Berger with their backs to one an
other. So utterly detected was Ber-
ger at the change and the supposed
reason for it that he could not eat
his breakfast.
"Cheer up, old mani" laughed
Watterson. Keeps your ears open
and perhaps you will get q hint or
two as to where your divinity will be
when she leaves Atlantic City"
Berger smiled. The girls maneu.
yer had sifted through his love blind.
ness. He went 30 far az to taste his
breakfast.
when we get back to Montreal
Betty was saying in voice that car.
ried distinctly to the two men, I'VE
will have to stay there for at least
three months--wOn't we?''
The men exchanged glances. "She
lives in Montreal" they said, and
aited for more.
sAnd II / can't come down to New
York for the Old Guard ball my name
IL, not Batty Lee! II papa doesn't lei