CHAPTER 23.
OWEN FORD COMES One evening Miss Cornelia telephoned down to Anne.
"The writer man has just arrived here.

I'm going to drive him down to your place, and you can show him the way over to Leslie's.

It's shorter than driving round by the other road, and I'm in a mortal hurry.

The Reese baby has gone and fallen into a pail of hot water at the Glen, and got nearly scalded to death and they want me right off--to put a new skin on the child, I presume.

Mrs.Reese is always so careless, and then expects other people to mend her mistakes.