After thanking Travis Gully and his wife for their hospitality, they shook hands with them and the young people, and with promises to see them again in a few days, left for the village.
Soon after their departure, Mr. Norton expressed a desire to visit Jack's homestead.
"All right, Dad," exclaimed Jack, "we will run over there, and I will return later and get my horse and buggy."
"I'll take care of them; you go with your father," said Gully.
Jack thanked him and he and his father drove off together. Just as they were turning from the road that led to the school house Jack noticed that Miss Anderson had just dismissed school, and asked his father's permission to take her and the Gully children home in the car, to which his father consented. Turning back into the road, they soon met them, and as the car was turned around to pick them up, Jack called to Miss Anderson and invited her and the children to ride; when she smilingly approached the car and before she could express her thanks, Jack introduced his father. Miss Anderson stopped short, and her bewildered look amused Jack, who had stepped out to assist her and the children to enter the car.
"Don't ask any questions now," said he, laughing.
"But," she began, "I do not understand."
"Of course not, but Ida will tell you all about it when you get home," answered Jack.
As Miss Anderson entered the car and took the seat beside him, Mr. Norton remarked:
"This has indeed been a remarkable day, Miss Anderson; a day of wonders."