Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-04-07
OUTWITTING FATHER
sy LOUISA IA ROGUE.

Betty flcw to the telephone as soon
as she heard her fathers car move
away. "Oh, Jim, ! must see you right
away. I've something awful to tell
you" she cried to someone who an
swercd her call.
"All right. I was just going to ring
you up and ask you to go for a ride.
It's peach of n day, and I can't settle
down 20 n thing for thinking of you"
"All right, dear. I'd love to go. I'll
be ready in five minutes. Mind, it's
awful news I've got to tell you"
Cant be worse than mine" came
back gloomily. even 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 spend.
thrift. and-and too good-looliing 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-T'l, be hanged" exclaimed
Jim. putting an arm around her heav.
ing shoulders. "Thats about the dope
I've been getting from father. too
WHAT'S the matter with everybodyw
Betty wiped her eyes Indignantly.
"You don't mean that your own father
is down on you, tool"
mot memo. it's you
"What do you mean?"
"He said you were extravagant and
foolish. and that he wasn't going to
have me making goose of myself over
pair of eyes and pretty facet"
"Jim! Why. he doesn't know what
I look like! He never saw met"
mo more did your father ever see
me. I'm rs freshly Matched out Of the
college egg as you are"
'It's queer" sighed Betty. "and very
hard to bear! They can't make me
marry anybody else. so there. I'll die
first Can you think of anything2"
'rm 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 90 into a bank?"
exclaimed Betty. And then suddenly.
81 have the very thing! Father says
he's looking for someone in the bank.
I could get Uncle Harvey to recon-.
mend you, and you could take another
, name and make father see how Won
derful you are"
"Thnt wouldn't be bad stunt.
wonder II can work It. would like
to show your dad that I'm not alto.
gether good-for-nothlng. wish fa.
Their could get to know you better, too.
I 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. "Jim! Do
| you think I'd do?"
"You couldn't stand that kind of
work, It's very hnrd--and long hours"
"If he doesn't have to have regular
| professional nurse, l believe I could
do It, I'd soon learn, and I wouldn't
mind the long hours. If you think you
could get me the place.
"I'll try, Betty, dear, II you really
want me to-
BY pulling certain ropes and wires
another week found Jim In Betty's FL
Tiers bank, and Betty In Jim's fathers
office.
The days grew hot and air sitting
There was a general exodus among
their friends to senshore and noun
tains, but they stuck to their posts
and worked bravely on. Jim felt once
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 he 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 q
bit tired. I'm thinking AZ closing III
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. HI
was going away with his father
Out in n 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 Stetson!" corrected her fa
ther "and n young Mr.. Stockdale, who
Is In the bank"
In the other boat Jim had exclaimed
involuntarily, "There's Betty Kings
land"
"AIr. and Mrs. Kingsland I" corrected
his father land Miss Knox whom
told you about In my Office"
An hour later they all met on thu
piazza Of the hotel. There was no us'
trying to carry the masquerade an!
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