"Dear Uncle and Aunt:
"You must not blame me or think too hard of me. I have just got to go. Daddy needs me. I am sure I can find him. I could not stay idly in Polktown and wait any longer. I will telegraph you when I reach the Border. Don't blame me. I just have to go! Love.
Janice."
"I might have known it! I might have known it!" muttered the schoolmaster.
"Ye might have known what?" demanded Mr. Day.
"That she meant what she said. She told me last evening she was going, and I didn't believe her."
"Oh, Mr. Haley!" cried Aunt 'Mira. "And ye didn't tell us in time——"
"In time for what?" exploded her husband. "Hi Guy! I'd like to see any man stop any female when she's sot on doin' a thing."
"But she's gone alone clear down there to Mexico and——"