The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-11-10
|BETTY'S BROKEN RESOLVE.
BY CATHERINE cRANMER.

/ Oh al nuuDeT one MalTlmOulaI
| chance"
"Pshaw. Jack! Aren't there plenty
more fish in the sea-"
Not plenty OF Markham's kind"
you are evidently OF one mind with
him. for it's because he is so sure that
he can't be wrong about anything that
I've been keeping him on the anxious
seat"
Take II from me, sis. II was wise
fellow who said that a man is some
thing like an egg-if you keep him in
| hot water a little while he boils soft.
but keep him there too long and he
hardens. Do you get me?" Jacks
/ question was flung over his shoulder
from the front hall, where he was get
ting into his overcoat and hat.
"Yes. get you" laughed Betty. as
she curled up in big tapestried arm
chair in front OF the fireplace.
Although she had firmly resolved not
+ to give a single thought to Fred Mark
ham until he apologized for his part in
their quarrel OF the evening before,
somehow, as she gazed into the fire,
her thoughts We're, al Of him The
/ quarrel had come about from Betty's
mention of lark she had enjoyed at. a
fancy dress ball at the country club
/ few evenings before when a moving
/ picture had been taken OF the ball
room by society man whose latest
fad was moving pictures.
Great Scott" exclaimed Fred. 81
hope you didn't get in range OF the
/ picture machine?"
"Why, yes! Why not? Larry Mapes
and l did a special stunt before it,"
And may | ask when and where
/ this picture is 10 be run as a means OF
| Haunting you in the face OF the pub
| lic?"
Now may | ask" began Betty,
whether this picture is any affair OF
yours and whether you want to shield
the public or the picture by prevent
| ing its appearance"
1T may not be my affair, Betty-that
rests with you" Fred answered, but
! | want to protect the picture because
| you're in it."
! And so the quarrel had continued
until Fred had bowed a formal good
night to a naughty Betty.
She was still curled up in the arm
| chair gazing meditatively at the fire
when her mother and father returned
| from their dinner engagement at
/ Judge Mapes'.
My, but you're home early" she
exclaimed. Did the judge run out OF
stories or did the cook run short on
| courses?"
! Neither, my dear" answered her
/ father, as he removed his gloves and
| slapped them together and held them
/ tight in his right hand, but Larry evi-
/ IDENTIFY ran out OF sane amusements
| and came near causing his own finish
as well as that Of two other people"
Poor old Larry! What's he up to
now?" asked Betty indifferently.
He's in the hospital right now, hav-
ing his many bruises dressed, and a
poor little chorus girl will be too ner-
vous TO stand in the front row to-
night, and'-with a sly look from un-
der his frowning eyebrows-"Fred
Markham has got a smashed roadster,
a bruised head and some broken ribs
as mementos OF his heroism
Fred Markham! Daddy, tell me
what you mean" There was no lack
OF eagerness now in Betty's big eyes.
well, Fred was driving along in
/ I
red and white racer come shooting
toward him like cannon ball and on
he same side OF the road as he was.
There was a small embankment sloping
down from the rod, and Fred tried %
turn his car down that embankment
before the racer hit him, but it's front
wheel struck his back one, and his ma
chine turned turtle and Larry's went
smash"
"Oh, daddy almost in a Whisper
lis Fred badly hurt? What made him
try to Jump the embankment? Why
didn't he cross 10 the other side Of the
road?'
Betty was puzzled at the question
Ing look that passed between her moth
or and her father before there was
any answer 20 her questions
Because, Betty" said her father
slowly, there was a chance that Lar
ry also might 90 that way, and as Fred
saw there was a girl with Larry he
took no chance because he thought the
girl might be you"
At that moment Betty's brother
Jack came bustling into the hall and
up 20 the library door.
Gee, SIS" he blurted out with the
air OF one who has big news 20 tell,
Markham came deuced near being
scrambled egg instead Of a hard boiled
one" In spite OF Betty's wall OF pro
test, he added. But instead of stay
ing in the hospital, he made them take
him 20 his own apartment and insisted
he was all right notwithstanding his
broken ribs"
Betty vanished up the stairway the
next instant. and when Jack went up
few moments later she was at the tele-
phone.
And Fred. do be very careful,