The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-08-28

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
a 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 I
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 meanF'
Gle said you were extravagant and
foolish, and that he wasn't going to
have me making a goose of myself over
a pair of eyes and a pretty facet"
"Jiml Why, he doesn't know what
l look like! He saw mel"
mo more did your father ever see
me. I'm as freshly Matched out of the
college egg as you are"
IT'S queer" sighed Betty, land very
hard to bearl 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 a good talk
with him."
why don't you go into a bank?"
exclaimed Betty. And then suddenly,
Il have the very thing! Father says
he's looking for someone in the bank.
/ could get Uncle Harvey to recon.
mend you, and you could take another
name and make father see how won.
derful you are"
'That wouldn't be a bad stunt. |
wonder If / can work it. 1 would like
to show your dad that I'm not alto,
gether a good-for-nothing. I wish ia.
Their could get to know you better, too.
j know what a splendid little person
t3Od 0A0s LC was SAhSAnS tic DIdiSC6
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 Do
you think I'd do?"
you couldn't stand that kind of
work, It's very hard-and long hours"
"If he doesn't have to have a regular
professional nurse, I believe / could
do it. I'd soon learn, and / wouldn't
mind the long hours, if you think you
could get me the place."
"Tll try, Betty, dear, If you really
want me to-"
BY pulling certain ropes and wires
another week found Jim In Betty's ia
theirs bank, and Betty in Jim's fathers
office.
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
and worked bravely on. Jim felt once
OF twice that it was rather an uphill
task when things were heaped on him
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
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you'll have to have a vacation soon,
Miss Knox for such was the name
Betty had taken. "You are looking a
bit tired. I'm thinking of closing up
the Office the last two weeks of July.
Think you can last so long?"
"Oh. thank you, yesl' answered
Betty gratefully.
Jim took his vacation then, also. He
was going away with his father.
Out in a launch on a beautiful Cana
dian lake one day in the next fortnight
the Kingslands passed another boat
containing two men.
"Jim StetsOn !" cried Betty.
doctor Stetson - corrected her ia
Their, "and a young Mr.. Stockdale, who
is in the bank"
In the other boat Jim had exclaimed
involuntarily, There's Betty Kings
land ~
"Mr. and Mrs. Kingsland !" corrected
his father. "and a Miss Knox whom |
told you about in my Office"
An hour later they all met on the
piazza of the hotel. There was no use
trying to carry the masquerade any
further, especially as Uncle Harvey
had appeared, and he knew everything.
And while they were congratulating
each other or the success of some plan
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