CHAPTER VI

MORE TROUBLE After Jabez Potter had burst into the kitchen of the Red Mill with the startling announcement that the bank of Cheslow had failed, there was a moment of silence as the full significance of the news dawned upon Ruth Fielding and Aunt Alvirah. Then, the latter, overcome by grief, gave a low moan and began pacing up and down the kitchen. “My money’s gone! My money’s gone! Oh, my back! And, oh, my bones!” “Your money?” Ruth had been thinking of her own troubles, of her account at the Cheslow Farmers Saving…