E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 31387-h.htm or 31387-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/31387/pg31387-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31387/31387-h.zip) BETTY WALES FRESHMAN by MARGARET WARDE Author of Betty Wales, Sophomore Betty Wales, Junior Betty Wales, Senior Betty Wales, B. A. Betty Wales & Co. Betty Wales on the Campus Betty Wales Decides [Illustration: "I'M IN A DREADFUL FIX"] The Penn Publishing Company Philadelphia 1921 Copyright 1904 by The Penn Publishing Company Betty Wales, Freshman Contents I First Impressions 7 II Beginnings 21 III Dancing Lessons and a Class-Meeting 35 IV Whose Photograph? 50 V Up Hill--and Down 63 VI Letters Home 80 VII A Dramatic Chapter 95 VIII After the Play 112 IX Paying the Piper 128 X A Rumor 146 XI Mid-years and a Dust-Pan 166 XII A Triumph for Democracy 185 XIII Saint Valentine's Assistants 208 XIV A Beginning and a Sequel 233 XV At the Great Game 255 XVI A Chance to Help 279 XVII An Ounce of Prevention 299 XVIII Into Paradise--and Out 321 XIX A Last Chance 337 XX Loose Threads 355 BETTY WALES CHAPTER I FIRST IMPRESSIONS "Oh, dear, what if she shouldn't meet me!" sighed Betty Wales for the hundredth time at least, as she gathered up her bags and umbrella, and followed the crowd of noisy, chattering girls off the train. "So long, Mary. See you to-morrow." "Get a carriage, Nellie, that's a dear. You're so little you can always break through the crowd." "Hello, Susanna! Did you get on the campus too?" "Thanks awfully, but I can't to-night. My freshman cousin's up, you know, and homesick and----" "Oh, girls, isn't it fun to be back?"