Evening star., 1933-04-09
BY E. d. KEILMANN.
INSTALLMENT I.

--HE two Bettys walked up to one an
other and kissed. That IS to say, the
real Betty walked up to the other
Betty and kissed her, but as the other
Betty always did exactly what the
real Betty did, they appeared to kiss
one another. The other Betty was IN the
mirror.
Betty smiled The Betty in the glass smiled
back at her. "You darling" said Betty, and
although she couldn't hear the other Betty, her
lips made the shape Of the same words. Maybe
1t wasn't exactly polite for the other Betty to
talk while Betty was speaking, but she always
did it and she did it so naturally that it wasn't
the least bit as though she were mimicking
Betty at all
Betty sighed, II do wish you could come out
Of that other room and play with me-" and the
other Betty seemed to be saying the same thing.
Betty turned her head, surveying the big
library In which she stood It was surrounded
on three sides by shelves filled with books. On
the third side were the windows looking out
on the drive and between the windows was
the big mirror. Betty always pretended that
this was another window and that 1t looked
into the "other ROOM where "the other Betty
lived.
Turning her head quickly toward the mirror,
Betty saw that the other Betty had been max
ing . similar survey of her surroundings.
'I have always wanted to have q sister," she
said Gould you be my twin sister?"
just to be sure that her proposition would
be accepted she nodded her head The other
Betty nodded her head, too and when Betty
smiled IN glee she, too, seemed happy at the
idea.
YOU see the real Betty lived IN that great
J house all alone. Although there was lots
and lots Of garden about the house and in that
garden there were many many places where
one could have lots OF fun playing, one simply
cannot play well without some one with whom
10 play
For instance, there was the most delightful
little play house down at the bottom of the
garden. It stood right over the lake and Betty
could look down into the water and see the
fish chasing one another about below. There
were times when she wondered If the fish
would play with her If she went down there.
Every morning at 9 Betty went to school,
but there were no boys and girls in her school,
Just Miss Stevens who taught arithmetic, geog-
raphy and things like that. Then one after
noon each week she had music teacher. An
other day there was a dancing teacher and
still another afternoon there was the athletic
instructor, who taught her tennis, golf and
swimming.
All OF these were grown-ups much older
than she, and she simply couldn't play or talk
with them as If they were her own age, which
was exactly IL
DEITY had tried to make friends with some
= Of the children down in the village where
she went for horseback rides sometimes. But
the village children treated her with more
respect than If she had been grown up. You
see Betty was very, very rich. All this house
and everything in it belonged to her-and lots
more besides. She really didn't know just
how rich she was. She had an uncle who
lived IN the house, but he was away most Of
the time and when she asked him to have her
cousin Tommy come and visit her. he just
laughed.