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Continuing our trek here through Bernie Babcock's 1922 ... oh, let's call "Billy of Arkansas" a novella. Today we come to a moment of romantic peril.
The impetuous heroine of Bernie Babcock's "Billy of Arkansas" has discovered to her sincere dismay that the women's workhouse in New York is as dangerous as the night court judge warned her it would be. She regrets not trusting him.
As I promised April 3, this week in our continuing attempt to paraphrase "Billy of Arkansas" we shall see Billy Camelton take her broken heart to New York, and join a picket line.
Help! I'm trapped in a paraphrase and can't get out.
"Bishop," Aunt Nan said one day. "Billy has always been pretty, but it seems to me she is growing more beautiful every day. I look at her and wonder. And she does not act the same either. She was always unselfish and thoughtful, but there is now some strange sweetness, some tenderness, something I don't know what, but Billy is changing."