When I reached Elbow Rock, I was in such a hurry, I took the short cut, while the man with my trunk and things went by the road over Schoolhouse Hill, you know.

I arrived here just as this gentleman was pulling you from the water." Before Brian could speak, Judy returned with excitement: "I know who you-all be now.

I ought ter knowed the minute I set eyes on you.

You-all are the gal with that there no-'count name, an' you've come ter work for him, there,"-- she pointed to Brian,--"a-helpin' him ter write his book, what ain't his'n no more, nohow, 'cause he done throwed hit away,--plumb inter the river." "I am Miss Williams," returned the other.

"My 'no-'count name,' I suppose, is Betty Jo." She laughed kindly.