CHAPTER XXV.
THE RIVER.
Brian Kent recovered quickly from the effects of his experience in the Elbow Rock rapids, and was soon able again to take up his work on the little farm.

Every day he labored in the garden, or in the clearing, or at some task which did not rightly fall to those who rented the major part of Auntie Sue's tillable acreage.
Auntie Sue had told him about her visit to the President of the Empire Consolidated Savings Bank, and of the arrangement made by the banker--as she understood it--for Brian's protection.

But while the dear old lady explained that Homer T.Ward was one of her pupils, she did not reveal the relation between Brian's former chief and Betty Jo.

Neither Auntie Sue nor Betty Jo, for several very good reasons, was ready for Brian to know the whole truth about his stenographer.

It was quite enough, they reasoned, for him to love his stenographer, and for his stenographer to love him, without raising any more obstacles in the pathway of their happiness.
As the busy weeks passed, several letters came from the publishers of Brian's book,--letters which made the three in the little log house by the river very happy.