She doesn't get any of it.

Mrs.Appleton has her hands so full of cookin' for farm hands and all, that she can't half tend to her own children, let alone anybody else's.

It's Betty that 'pears to be bringin' up the little Appletons." "I'm glad there's somebody takes enough interest in the child to write to her," continued the gossipy old squire, who often talked to himself when he could find no other audience.

"I wonder who it is.

Lloydsboro Valley it's postmarked.