is money enough
behind it, and the family, living in the little old part of the house,
and still using the faithful tin bath-tub and shower of Bob's
manufacture, now looked forward to real bathrooms on the bedroom floor,
with tiled floors and porcelain fittings. Large windows cropped out on
the new walls that were going up, a wide stone chimney and porches. A
charming little stone affair in the back yard that went up so quietly it
was hardly noticed until it was done suddenly became the home of a big
gray car that arrived in town one morning. Betty gave up her position at
the Hathaways so that she could have more time to superintend the work
and see that it was just as she wanted it, and she and Bob spent hours
going over the plans together, he making many wise suggestions. Mrs.
Hathaway called her "Miss Stanhope" with elaborate ceremony, and made
Elise kiss her whenever she met her.

Betty went to a near-by town and bought some pretty clothes, and a lot
of things for Ma and Emily and Bob. A beautiful new piano came by
express and took the place of Mrs. Barlow's tinpanny one.

Then Betty went up to the city and bought more things, furniture and
silver and curtains and rugs, and brought Jane back with her to take a
rest and see the little old house once more before it became the big new
house, and stay until she was ready to be married; for Betty was
determined to have the house ready for Jane's wedding.

When all the new beautiful things began to arrive Betty told Ma that she
had taken her in when she was poor and homeless and absolutely
penniless, and now all these things were her reward, and Betty couldn't
do enough ever to thank her for what she had done for her. They had
offered a five-thousand-dollar reward for news of her, and Ma had done
more than ten thousand and thousands of thousands of dollars' worth of
holding back news about her, and she was never going to get done giving
her her reward.

Of course Betty brought Nellie home, too, and established her in a
lovely new room just fit for a young girl, and began to pet her and fix
her up with pretty things as any loving sister might do if she had money
of her own.

All this time Reyburn had much business to transact in Tinsdale, for
Betty had asked him to look after all the little details about the
building for her, and he had to come down every week-end and look things
over to see that she was not being cheated. And once he brought Jimmie
down with him for