The writer announced that Mr.Crow's state of health was causing some anxiety on Rosalie's account--the child was then six years old--and it was hoped that nothing serious would result.

Another time the strange writer, in a letter from Paris, instructed Mr.Crow to send Rosalie to a certain boarding school and to see that she had French, German, and music from competent instructors.

Again, just before the girl went to New York for her two years' stay in Miss Brown's school, there came a package containing $2500 for her own personal use.

Rosalie often spoke to Anderson of this mysterious sender as the "fairy godmother"; but the old marshal had a deeper and more significant opinion.
Perhaps the most anxious period in the life of Anderson Crow came when Rosalie was about ten years old.

A new sheriff had been elected in Bramble County, and he posed as a reformer.