"I told Barbara not to go to visit you to-day, Mr.Winslow.

She has been helping me with the packing." Jed swallowed hard.

"Packin' ?" he repeated.

"You've been packin'?
Then 'twas true, what Philander Hardy said about your goin' back to Luretta's ?" The lady nodded.

"Yes," she replied.