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By Clara Louise Burnham


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CLEVER BETSY

[Illustration: SHE SANK INTO THE ARMS THAT CLASPED HER]




CLEVER BETSY

A Novel

    by
    Clara Louise Burnham

    With Illustrations by
    Rose O’Neill

[Illustration]

    BOSTON AND NEW YORK
    HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
    The Riverside Press Cambridge
    1910




    COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM
    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    _Published September 1910_




CONTENTS


         I. OPENING THE COTTAGE          1
        II. MISTRESS AND MAID           16
       III. IRVING BRUCE                27
        IV. MRS. POGRAM CONFIDES        38
         V. ROSALIE VINCENT             47
        VI. THE LAST STAGE              62
       VII. THE NATIONAL PARK           75
      VIII. THE BLONDE HEAVER           87
        IX. THE FOUNTAIN HOUSE         102
         X. ON THE RIVERSIDE           117
        XI. FACE TO FACE               131
       XII. THE FAITHFUL GEYSER        150
      XIII. THE HEIRESS                160
       XIV. THE LOOKOUT                176
        XV. AN EXODUS                  189
       XVI. BETSY’S GIFT               202
      XVII. SUNRISE                    217
     XVIII. HOMEWARD BOUND             232
       XIX. MRS. BRUCE’S HEADACHE      246
        XX. BETSY’S APPEAL             258
       XXI. A RAINY EVENING            270
      XXII. THE WHITE DOVE             282
     XXIII. THE DANCE                  296
      XXIV. THE CLASH                  313
       XXV. WHITE SWEET PEAS           327
      XXVI. IN BETSY’S ROOM            338
     XXVII. BETSY RECEIVES             355
    XXVIII. GOOD-BY, SUMMER            369
      XXIX. THE NEW YEAR               387




CLEVER BETSY