"I haven't read all the letter yet, but I know that Mr. Alison sent the picture to Dr. Eaton. Let me see." Betty consulted Tom's epistle. "Here it is. 'If you will believe it, John got my letter in Tombstone, Arizona, where he was spending a day on his way from San Francisco back to the railroad that he's building down in New Mexico. He was delighted with the whole game, and thinking that Eaton would appreciate that picture, he sent it along with a note from Georgia which I guess from his description was a corker. You see he didn't realize that you girls would have to stand for it sooner or later, so he wrote that his--I mean Georgia's--heart was Eaton's for keeps, and that she couldn't bear the separation and wanted to exchange photographs, and wouldn't he write her just a line? I've written him "just a line" to warn him against taking any such liberties again with my friends' ideas; and I hope that it isn't too late for you to square yourselves all right. I'll make John write and apologize, if you say so. The letter was all right, you see, from him, but Eaton thinking it was from a girl, of course wouldn't like the idea. I hope this doesn't mean the premature death of Georgia, and I hope Eaton didn't get that letter before the Christmas recess, but I'm awfully afraid he may have.'"