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By HELYN CONNELLY BETTY
-TANE threw her purse at
a chair and sat down heavily on
the bed.
She wore her father's shirt and !
her brother's blue jeans, a Costume I
she adopted a year before with I
"Woody Anderson's permission.
"What's the matter, dear?" She
jumped as the words cut the silence,
but she didn't turn. She didn't
'. want her mother to know anything
> (was amiss?not yet, anyway. And
ithen suddenly the tears came, like
\ angry Hood waters bursting through
!? barrier, unable to be restrained
any longer.
j Mrs. Miller was careful to keep a
j straight face as she wiped het
1 ift-year-old daughter's face with het
?handkerchief. "Why, dear? Did
'Lance upset you?"
i ueuy jane shook her head vehe- |
<mently. Why did mother always
think her brother was to blame tor
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her tearaT Grown women nevar
cried over their brothers 1 "It'a what
Lance saw, not what he did," Betty
said in a burst of confidence. As I
her mother waited she continued I
wretchedly. "Ha aaw Woody buy- I
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.mother, Imaginet He was so glib
when he told me I looked cute in
Jeans and now he's tWo-timing me
with some fluffy female who actually
uses cologne! Oh, how chn men be
so beastly?"
"Darling, how do you know the
cologne isn't for you? Maybe Woody
thinkis you've outgrown your Jeans."
"He knows what I think of these
Sink and. whits girls who use that
orrible concoction] He .wouldn't
dare get me any. And besides, I al- j
' ready told him I wanted roller skates
for Christmas. ... I have to be
ready for the new rink that's openH
tog next mphth, don't I? I thought
Woody and I would be going together,
but how that's all over." She
threw her arms around her mother
and cried tragically, "Oh, mother,
I'll hever smile again I I definitely
won't-" . '
This time Mrs. Miller smiled over
her daughter's head. She well recognized
the stage Betty Jane was
going through and decided she must
take a hand. "You're sure the cologne
wouldn't be for a sister or a
cousin?" . '
"He hasn't a female in the family,
and 'his mother never uses' it, so
I who else could it possibly be for?
I'll bet it's for Estelle Bryan. All
the other fellows like her but Woody
uqed to hay she wits too fragile. Oh,
vx mother, how he'a-deceived met"
UER mother arose, "Well, dry
**'your eyes, Betty, dear. It's |
Christmas Eve and you want to be I
, \ happy today, woody will probably I
come over with your roller skates to- I
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f likes fragile girls, he'll get one."
Betty Jane sat up* straight.
"Mother, no! Not that horrible blue
dress yon bought met.
."You wash up and -put that dress
en, Betty. , >
' We'll wait for you downstairs."
With that, Mrs. Miller closed the
door on her tomboy daughter and
hurried downstairs. As she reached
ItM bottom step the doorbell rang
and she admitted Woody Anderson,
a lanky boy with unruly red hair
1 and freckles marching in perfect fori
nation over the bridge of. Ms nose.
Be was clutching a box. obviously'
containing the roller skatea request,
ad'by' Betty Jane. ,
"She'll be right down," Mrs. Milt'
, er Informed him, then left him alone- <J
for the surprise.
It came a half-hour later when
Betty J mam made, her appearance.
The blue -dress looked, even better
than she bad hoped it would.
"Gosh, Betty Janel" Woody contrlbuted
to the conyersatlon. The
smile broadened. "For me. f
Woody?" she asked, nodding tow am
the box. "la It cologne? Lance saW
you buying some." So casual, so
"Wb?gosh, no, Betty Jane. Gee,
yon asked for fkates and I got them
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