In fact, she spent the entire evening at it; which led Judy to remark that "hit sure looked like Auntie Sue was aimin' ter write a book herself." A neighbor who went to Thompsonville the following day with a load of hogs for shipment, posted the letter.

And, in due time, another neighbor brought the answer.

Betty Jo would come.
It was the day following the evening when Brian wrote the last page of his book that another letter came to Auntie Sue,--a letter which, for the second time, very nearly wrecked Brian Kent's world..