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[Illustration: "MALCOLM WENT ON CUTTING."

(See Chapter IX. Her Sacred Promise)]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE INVITATIONS ARE SENT

II. "ONE FLEW INTO THE CUCKOO'S NEST"

III. "ONE FLEW EAST"

IV. "ONE FLEW WEST"

V. BETTY REACHES THE "HOUSE BEAUTIFUL"

VI. THE ENCHANTED NECKLACE

VII. BITS FROM BETTY'S DIARY

VIII. THE GYPSY FORTUNE-TELLER

IX. HER SACRED PROMISE

X. FOUND OUT

XI. SOME STORIES AND A POEM

XII. A PILLOW-CASE PARTY

XIII. MORE MEASLES

XIV. A LONG NIGHT

XV. "THE ROAD OF THE LOVING HEART"

XVI. A FEAST OF LANTERNS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"MALCOLM WENT ON CUTTING" (Frontispiece)

"'OH, RUN AND GET IT, QUICK, DAVY,' SHE CRIED"

"SHE SORTED THE RIBBONS AND EXAMINED THE GLOVES"

"BETTY BEGAN THE STORY"

"'I'M GLAD THAT I DON'T HAVE TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY THE YEAR ROUND!'"

"THERE WAS ONE WILD SCREAM AFTER ANOTHER"

"'BUT WE CAUGHT THE CHICKENS AND BROUGHT THEM BACK!'"

"'LET'S ALL SIT DOWN ON THE STEPS'"

CHAPTER I.

THE INVITATIONS ARE SENT.

Down the long avenue that led from the house to the great entrance gate
came the Little Colonel on her pony. It was a sweet, white way that
morning, filled with the breath of the locusts; white overhead where the
giant trees locked branches to make an arch of bloom nearly a quarter of
a mile in length, and white underneath where the fallen blossoms lay
like scattered snowflakes along the path.

Everybody, in Lloydsboro Valley knew Locust. "It is one of the prettiest
places in all Kentucky," they were fond of saying, and every visitor to
the Valley was taken