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CHAPTER XX

BETTY AT LARGE

It was not till Betty found herself many blocks distant from the office of _Peaceful Moments_ that she checked her headlong flight. She had run down the stairs and out into the street blindly, filled only with that passion for escape which had swept her away from Mervo. Not till she had dived into the human river of Broadway and reached Times Square did she feel secure. Then, with less haste, she walked on to the park, and sat down on a bench, to think.

Inevitably she had placed her own construction on John's sudden appearance in New York and at the spot where only one person in any way connected with Mervo knew her to be. She did not know that Smith and he were friends, and did not, therefore, suspect that the former and not herself might be the object of his visit. Nor had any word reached her of what had happened at Mervo after her departure. She had taken it for granted that things had continued as she had left them; and the only possible explanation to her of John's presence in New York was that, acting under orders from Mr. Scobell, he had come to try and bring her back.

She shuddered as she conjured up the scene that must have taken place if Pugsy had not mentioned his name and she had gone on into the inner room. In itself the thought that, after what she had said that morning on the island, after she had forced on him, stripping it of the uttermost rag of disguise, the realization of how his position appeared to her, he should have come, under orders, to bring her back, was well-nigh unendurable. But to have met him, to have seen the man she loved plunging still deeper into shame, would have been pain beyond bearing. Better a thousand times than that this panic flight into the iron wilderness of New York.

1. What city is Betty in?
2. Where did she used to live?
3. Was she walking around calmly?
4. What street did she go down?
5. Were their a lot of people on the street?
6. Where did she take Broadway to?
7. Why?
8. Who was she surprised to see in NYC?
9. Why did she think he was there?
10. Does he know anyone else there?
11. Who?
12. Are they friends?
13. Is there another reason he might be in the city, besides her?
14. What reason?
15. Who does she think told him to bring her back?
16. Does she love John?
17. What is she afraid she would feel if she saw him?
18. Where did she go after Times Square?
19. Did she run there?
20. What did she do when she got there?
1. New York City
2. Mervo
3. no
4. Broadway
5. unknown
6. Times Squar
7. to sit and think
8. John
9. to bring her back
10. yes
11. Smith
12. yes
13. yes
14. to see his friend
15. Mr. Scobell
16. yes
17. beyond bearing.
18. to the park
19. no
20. sat down