Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-04-27
OUTWITTING FATHER
BY LOUISA Ia ROGUE.
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swered her call.
q "All right. I was just going to ring
you up and ask you to go for ride
It's peach of day, and can't settle
down TO a thing for thinking of YOU"
'All right. dear. I'd love to CO. III
be ready in five minutes. Mind. it's
awful news I've got to tell your
Cant be worse than mine,' came
back gloomily. "We1l console each
other. That's something. anyway
In five minutes Jim Stetson's road.
ster was at the door of the Kingslands
and Betty got In.
whats wrong, dear?" The car
moved away toward the country, where
blossoms and young life were turning
the world into fairyland.
dad says he won't have you hang
Ing round. He called you all sorts of
dreadful things-a loafer, and a spend
thrift, and-and too. good-loOking for
your own or any girls happiness
that's what he said" she sobbed into
soft little handkerchief. 'And he
said that he had-plans for me. There
was someone else he wanted me to
marry"
'Well-Tn be hanged" exclaimed
Jim, putting an arm around her heav-
ing shoulders. That's about the dope
I've been getting from father, too /!
What's the matter with everybody ?"
Betty wiped her eyes Indignantly.
you don't mean that your own father
is down on you, tool"
"Not memo, it's you
What do you meant"
"He said you were extrayagant and
foolish, and that he wasn't going to
have me making goose of myself over
pair of eyes and pretty face!''
Jim! Why, he doesn't know what
look like He never saw me rs
'.No more did your father ever see
me. I'm as freshly Matched out of the
college egg as you are"
ITS queer" sighed Betty. land very
hard TO bear! They can't make me
marry anybody else, so there. I'll die
first. Can you think of anything?"
I'm willing to do anything for you,
dear. I've always meant to go to work,
But fathers so busy with his patients,
he doesn't have time to think of me.
I've been waiting to have good talk
with him."
why don't you go into a bank ?"
exclaimed Betty. And then suddenly,
II have the very thing Father says
he's looking for someone in the bank
1 could get Uncle Harvey to recon-
mend you, and you could take another
name and make father see how won
derfL, you are
THAT wouldn't be q bad stunt
wonder If can work it. ! would like
to show your dad that I'm not alto.
gether a good-for-nothing / wish ia
Their could get to know you better, too
know what a splendid little person
you are! He was singing the praises
of his Office assistant who just got mar
ried, and how she worked and did this
and that and the other thing.
Betty caught his arm. "Jiml Dc
you think I'd do?"
You couldn't stand that kind of
work, IFS very hard-and long hours"
IF he doesn't have to have a regular
professional nurse, believe ! could
do it. I'd soon learn, and / wouldD't
mind the long hours. If you think you
could get me the place"
"I'll try, Betty, dear, If you really
want me to-"
BY pulling certain ropes and wires
another week found Jim in Betty's fa
theirs bank, and Betty in Jims fathers
office. 8
The days grew hot and air sitting
There was a general exodus among
their friends to seashore and noun
tains, but they stuck to their posts
or twice that it was rather an uphill
task when things were heaped on hin
that no one else wanted to do.
Betty. too, had days when she was
too tired TO care what happened. The
hottest, busiest ones seemed to be the
very time Doctor Stetson thought OF
restocking drugs or of rearranging in
strument cabinets.
Lately Doctor Stetson had praised
her several times for quick judgment
and accuracy as well as courage
You'll have to have vacation soon
Miss Knox" for such was the name
Betty had taken. ''You are looking &
bit tired. Pm thinking Of closing VI
the Office the last two weeks of July
Think you can last so lOng?"
"Oh, thank you, yes" answered
Betty gratefully.
Jim took his vacation then, also. he
was going away with his father.
, Out in launch on a beautiful Cana
dian lake one day in the next fortnight
the Kingslands passed another boa
containing two men.
"Jim Stetson !" cried BETTY.
Doctor Statson - corrected her fa
Their, land a young Mr. Stockdale, who
is in the bank"
In the other boat Jim had exclaimed
invoIuntarlly, There's Betty Kings