," murmured Grace. "It is he all right!"

The farmer came hurrying through the crowd with the justice to whom he
had gone to make a complaint. Above his head he waved a paper, crying:

"I got it! I have the warrant. Now Mr. Faker, which ought to be your
name, you'll spend the rest of the summer behind the bars, on this
charge."

"Yes, and with another added to it, perhaps," said Mr. Blackford, with a
glance at Carrie.

The faker, which it is easier to call him, as he went by many names,
shrugged his shoulders philosophically. He saw that he was caught.
Perhaps he had been in the toils of the law before this.

He was quickly taken to the court house, where he was held on the
farmer's charge under such heavy bail that it was not produced. This
insured him being retained in custody.

"And now to attend to your case, Miss Norton," said Mr. Blackford, when
Allen Washburn had been telegraphed for, and promised to come. "So he
was your guardian; eh?"

"Yes, and since the girls recognize him for what he was part of the
time--a seller of hair tonic--I will explain a little further. He made
me pose in his cart, before the crowds, as one whose hair had been
restored and made long by his worthless stuff. Oh, it was shameful! That
is why I ran away from him!"

"I don't blame you," said Mollie. "And did his stuff do your hair any
good?"

"I never used a drop of it! Neither did he. It was trash! He used to
make me shake down my hair before the crowd, and then he would tell how
I used to have none at all, but by using his medicine it came. I always
had nice hair, before I ever met him! Oh, I can't forget it!" and she
sobbed a little.

"Never mind," said Betty, gently, "it is all over now."

And it was, as far as any further charge the faker had over Carrie
Norton. Allen Washburn came on with the papers in the case. It seems
that a distant relative of the girl, learned in a round about way that
Clark, or Bennington, to use but two of his names, had forged certain
documents in order to make it appear that he was her legal guardian.
This gave him control of Carrie, and her money, a tidy sum left by her
father. The girl he compelled to accompany him on his vending trips, but
when he went into the making of worthless hair restorer and obliged her
to pose as having benefited by it, she finally rebelled.

This distant relative, wishing to aid the girl, took the matter up with
a law firm, happening to hit on the one where Allen