CHAPTER IX.
The three women from Green River had been six days in Elliot, they were going to leave the next morning, and Mrs.Field's secret had not been discovered.

Nothing but her ill favor in the village had saved her.

Nobody except Mrs.Jane Maxwell had come to call.

Mrs.Babcock talked and wondered about it a great deal to Mrs.Green and Amanda.
"It's mighty queer, seems to me, that there ain't a soul but that one old woman set foot inside this house since we've been here," said she.

"It don't look to me as if folks here thought much of Mis' Field.