of her clothes, ridiculed her local idioms and expressions
and laughed at her inexperience. She would not study and tried to keep
Mary from doing so. She rolled on Mary's bed, keeping her own tidy;
appropriated three-fourths of the closet and most of the drawers of the
dresser and washstand, leaving for Mary the bottom drawer of each and
closet hooks in the dark corner. She reported to the matron that Mary
was not neat and quarrelled all the time. But the matron, wise to the
girls of her day and generation, had her suspicions, and by a careful
and unsuspected surveillance soon became cognizant of true conditions.

Mary was changed to share the room of a girl from Austin, Miss Litton,
whose disposition was more like her own. From then on conditions became
comfortable.

After Dorothy returned home, Cornwall's friends said he was hard hit,
because he turned his back on social diversions. He merely reverted to
his habits preceding her visit. For a while he was invited everywhere,
but declined; finally they discontinued sending invitations and left him
to his hermithood.

His sole recreation was the improvement of the old place, at which he
spent all the time not given up to his law business. That grew steadily,
so that in 1900, six years after he had established himself in Harlan,
he had an income in excess of $5,000.00. This, with his mother's annuity
of $1,800.00, gave them more than three thousand dollars a year in
excess of their actual needs.

The leisure of the fall and winter of 1895 was spent in cleaning up,
trimming the trees, transplanting shrubs and vines, including border
beds of hydrangeas which were planted around the walls of the house and
out-buildings. When spring came and the garden had been plowed, rolled
and planted, the grounds were in perfect condition.

The yard and garden, so artistically laid off and perfectly kept,
emphasized the unattractive appearance of the bare, red-brick house
until John and his mother felt forced to alter its rectangular
barrenness. Since paying for the house they had saved something over
$2,000.00 for that purpose and felt justified in commencing its
alteration.

Duffield, the company engineer, was possessed of considerable artistic
taste and an amateur architect. It so happened a friend of his from
Pittsburgh, an architect, whose specialty was suburban homes, was
spending his summer vacation camping and fishing on the Poor Fork.
Duffield, who was with him, finally p