reply came just in time to get Melda off with Neelie. She had come to the Cabin the night before and had the luxury of a bath and an opportunity to wash up her small belongings. Monday morning Neelie arrived in good time in a pouring rain. The train reached Dione at noon. Finley would not reach Harlan till four any-way and Melda would better reach Louisville in the morning so we persuaded Neelie to wait for an early dinner and take the evening train hoping the rain would stop which it did soon after dinner. I watched them while they picked their way across the swollen Fork and up the mountain side. Melda had a small pack and as I watched I saw Neelie turn to herand take her pack on her own back. I called a last good-bye as they entered the forest trail. Everett a step-son of Neelie’s had returned and offered to mind his two half-brothers while Neelie was away till her return with Finley on the morrow.

One day Bert was away and Jason was home with the children. The least-one went limp every two hours so Loretta must go to the Cabin for castor-oil and musterole and cough drops for Laurence was sick too. He is an imp so I took a malicious pleasure in knowing he was going to have a dose of castor-oil which Bert was quite capable of administering upon her return. The next day Loretta came again asking for “pink pills”. She seemed in no hurry