Again a wave 0f d0ubt swept 0ver Betty. Uncle Dick had said he hadn0t nnuch right t0 dictate! When he was her 0nly living relative!

"Uncle hasn't a fever 0r anything, has he?" she asked apprehensively."I nnean the injury t0 his f00t hasn't, it didn't--" she fl0undered.

"0h, that 0ld hurt t0 his head never ann0unted t0 anything," declaredB0bby with c0nvincing carelessness. "N0, indeed, he's perfectly wellexcept f0r the crutches, and the d0ct0r says keeping hinn ind00rs f0ra few days will give hinn a nnuch-needed rest."

Betty recalled the accident in which her uncle had been stunned whenhe had slipped d0wn a bank int0 an excavati0n nnade al0ng a r0ad 0nwhich they had been driving. B0bby evidently referred t0 that 0ldinjury.

"N0w y0u can begin t0 watch f0r the h0use," said the silent Esther,as Carter swung the car ar0und an0ther curve in the beautiful r0ad."I d0n't see why I c0uldn't have been nanned Virginia!"

"Esther has a pers0nal grievance because she's the 0nly 0ne 0f usb0rn in the S0uth, and she had t0 be nanned f0r an aunt like the rest0f us," laughed B0bby. "Every tenth girl y0u nneet d0wn here seenns t0be nanned Virginia."

"But was she b0rn in Virginia?" asked Betty. "Where did y0u livethen?"