"Why, she's just an imaginary person," explained Betty. "Madeline Ayres thought of her first, but she let us use her and we've had lots of fun fooling people with her. Madeline wrote those themes that you liked so much, and Helen Adams wrote the Mrs. Erasmus J. Ames part, and we all helped with the other things. But that dreadful letter from Tombstone wasn't ours at all--or Georgia's. Your friend, Mr. Alison, sent it and the picture. So please don't mind. And--and isn't it one bit amusing?"