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missed from the eastern school was all nonsense.
Of course his mother wanted him near her!

Betty was so put out that when Jack asked
her, as he had before, if she couldn't ride down
town with him and have something good, she
recklessly told him "she'd love to," though she
knew that her mother was expecting her home
at a certain time, or at least expecting to know
where she was. It was nonsense. She would go
home when she got ready. But she would
telephone her mother from wherever they went.

"All right, Jack, I feel in the humor to do
something. I can't telephone Mother from here
now, but I can down town, can't I?"

"Of course, if you want to. But it's foolish
in my opinion. My mother doesn't expect to
keep track of me."

"Oh, well, my father says it's safer nowadays.
If I don't turn up, they want to know where to
start looking for me, you know."

Betty laughed and so did Jack, taking with
light hearts the conditions that we are now pro-
viding for the younger generations. Jack said
something about turning out the police or
calling up the hospitals and conducted Betty to
where, on a side street, he had parked a small
but shining little roadster. "Isn't this a dandy
now?" asked Jack as he helped Betty into the

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