Publisher's Synopsis
"Why, here's Joe!" "So soon? I didn't expect him until night." The girl who had uttered the first exclamation, and her mother whose surprise was manifested in the second, hurried to the door of the cottage, up the gravel walk to which a tall, athletic youth was then striding, swinging a heavy valise as though he enjoyed the weight of it. "Hello, Mother!" he called gaily. "How are you, Sis?" and a moment later Joe Matson was alternating his marks of affection between his mother and sister. "Well, it's good to be home again!" he went on, looking into the two faces which showed the pleasure felt in the presence of the lad. "Mighty good to be home again!" "And we're glad to have him; aren't we, Mother?"
