Mabel Melrose, the warbonds contest winner, turned out to be an aspiring painter in search of the rural life, rather than her scheming partner-in-crime Squire Skimp. She thinks all artists must live in attics so Lum has talked Abner into renting her his attic. As we look in on the little community today, we find the old fellows cleaning out the attic of the Peabody residence...