It was the skeleton in his closet." So Mr.Eliphalet Biggs met the pretty daughter of Jack Kelso.

On his way back to the tavern he told Ann that he had fallen in love with the sweetest and prettiest girl in all the world--Bim Kelso.

That very evening Ann went over to Kelso's cabin to take the news to Bim and her mother and to tell them that her father reckoned he belonged to a very rich and a very grand family.

Naturally, they felt a sense of elation, although Mrs.Kelso, being a woman of shrewdness, was not carried away.
Mr.Kelso had gone to Offut's store and the three had the cabin to themselves.
"I think he's just a wonderful man!" Bim exclaimed.

"But I'm sorry his name is so much like figs and pigs.