In the Smokey Mountains

near the end of forty miles of bad road, the postman on his mule hands a letter to cousin Emily, all the way from England. She reads of the sinister Mr. Sturgis, and of the Captain, who never seems to notice poor Mrs. Orman, much as she would like to be noticed.....Luke is off in the holler splitting wood for the coming Winter....the youngun's are still at Miss Mabel's schoolhouse.....she should find a hen to kill for supper.....