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 Chapter XVI

 An Unhappy Interview


Then there was something in the remarks
that had been made about Jack Huxley. Betty
woke early after a few hours' sleep, recalling the
sound of low voices, those of her father and
mother, talking over the matter, of course. Care-
ful not to waken Doris, Betty presently gath-
ered up her school clothes and went to the bath-
room to dress; but she was not the first one
up. She could hear some one, presumably her
mother, moving about in the other part of the
apartment.

Before Betty combed her tousled golden head,
she hurried into the kitchen and found her
mother fixing grape fruit for breakfast. It was
during a sad but short interval without the little
maid. Mrs. Lee looked at Betty with a whim-
sical smile and asked, "How's the 'wreck of
the Hesperus?'" -- for that was Betty's favorite
expression when she was tired.

Betty, rather white this morning, laughed a
little. "How well you understand, Mother," she

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