CHAPTER V

THE MYSTERIOUS SUMMONS The R.F.D. mail carrier, coming out from Cheslow, stopped at the Red Mill at about eleven o’clock each week day morning. On Monday he halted as usual, and Sarah, Aunt Alvirah’s helper, ran out to accept the mail instead of letting the man put it in the box on the post which Ben had set up by the roadside. There were a number of letters for Ruth, but when she sorted them there was none that held the first element of surprise, save one. All the others were either from friends or upon business w…