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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

Not Disappointed

THE young man with the fair hair. At 1 o'clock a party of eight bridge and the blue eyes smiled impu- club women drove in. They annoyed She dently.

Betsy Lee with their silly talk. was in a tense mood when she return- ed to the sitting-room and found the young man there.

"Been waiting an hour,” he assured her. "Here's my dollar."

"Are you the-or-official guide?" Betsy Lee's chin rose a fraction of an inch higher. "If you wish to be shown about the homestead, I'll be glad to show you." She hated this, hated herself because she had submitted to Betsy Lee smiled in spite of herself. this plan of her mother of making a "They didn't bother with the house, but show place of The Birches..

went into the garden and sat near the "After all, darling," her mother had white-railed bridge. The young man said, "one must live. The Birches has wanted to know if he could come back its historical points. Tourists will be to-morrow evening. He said he had a glad to pay a dollar to see and exclaim car and he'd like to take her driving and touch the hallowed places”. in it, and it wouldn't cost her a cent.

"Mother, for goodness sake! For- get about the place's past. Think of what it will mean to have our privacy intruded upon. Our family has lived here for generations. We've been rich and proud of our New England stock, and now”,

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Betsy Lee laughed. Why not? Good heavens, did she have to be stuffy and staid and hard to get along with sim- ply because they had made their house into a show place?

"I can't understand it," her mother said at supper. "John's letter said he "We're not rich any longer. And if would be here yesterday. I wonder you won't marry John Linton", what in the world has happened to

So she had submitted. She would him?”

rather do anything than have, her hus-But Betsy Lee scarcely heard. "To- band picked out for her. She remem morrow, I'm taking the afternoon off,” bered John Linton as a boy of 12. He she said. "You and Cora, will have to had been in love with her then. How manage.

silly to think that love would have sur-But she didn't get away until nearly

By Barbara Ann Benedict

vived-maturity. She understood the 4. There was another party of women Lintons had tripled their fortune. Her who insisted on looking at and gossip- mother had kept in touch with them. ing about every detail of every room. In every letter John Linton had in- The car was a roadster very much the quired for Betsy.

worse for wear. But it went, and that, Betsy Lee kept her chin high as according to the young man, was really she literally stalked from room to the only important part. "Bet it'll get room. The young man with the fair us to a little inn I know 30 miles up hair wore his impudent smile, listening the road without stopping." attentively. In this room, George It did. "The place was charmingly Washington entertained-" "It was located near a waterfall. Sitting op- here that Paul Revere" "Longfellow-posite the young man at a cozy little had his desk near this window. From table, Betsy Lee said: "Heavens, I here you can see...”.

don't even know your name!”

Then they went outside and wander-

"It was coming to that," he told her ed through the gardens. Throughout it all Betsy Lees was aware that the soberly."It's Hayward. Paul Hay- war: You've probably heard of us. young man wasn't particularly inter- ested in the historical merits of the Well the fact is we've been pretty old place. At least, how could he be hard hit, decided to make a show place of our homestead. Heard about what when he kept his eyes on her every you were doing. Hope you don't mind. single, solitary minute?

That night her mother said:..... "Dar.

"I came over to get a few pointers.” ling! The most wonderful news. (John

"But the Haywards! You mean that Linton is coming to pay us a visit!" old, old family? And I was so proud If "Fancy sald Betsy Lee. She -I mean, of course I don't mind. smiled wickedly. "It will cost him a there's anything I can do to help-”. dollar if he wants to look the place "There is!" · "he cried. "You can c." She was thinking of the young come down and talk to mother. She's man with the fair hair. Upon leaving terribly depressed. Will you do it?” he had said: "It's been the most plea. Of course! I'd love to. I really sant afternoon I've spent in fears, would!""

over.

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I'm coming back to-morrow. Do you* That night when Betsy Lee got home mind?"

her mother sald sleepily:John_wired "It will cost you a dollar,” she had - ho couldn't make it. Hope you're not declared almost fiercely. And now she disappointed." thought: "Will he come back? Why

"Well, hardly!" Betsy Lee "declared did I have to be so beastly? Is it his joyfully. fault that we are reduced to this? He (Copyright 1938, 'By The Associated really was nice.”

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