CHAPTER THIRTY-ONEMargaret Thackrey
Margaret folded Lem’s letter and smiled. She would be fine, she thought, as long as she had a promising young writer with whom to work. While she did her own writing she went entirely out of the world, into new and unusual places and situations, but solitude would not be good for her or for her work.
She felt Lem and Bud would hit it off well too. Skillet Bend would come nearer to accepting a boy like Lem, a country boy, very young, and a student. More than one family boarded a student from time to time. They should make no problem for him, and she had already told Miss Carlotta to lay the groundwork for his arrival.
She took another letter from the pile at her elbow.
From Tally:
Dearest Margaret,
You have had a tough time, but the best thing for t
