"I was uncertain what to do, when I happened to catch sight of Miss West," continued Grace.

"An evil genius must have prompted me to take her into my confidence.

But it was a good story, and Patience had told me only a day or two before that Miss West had been mourning over her lack of news for her paper.

She made what I believed to be a promise to leave out the Oakdale part of the story and not to use my name within it.

Not a line of the Oakdale part of the story appeared in the Overton papers.