Lum is still away on his secret mission, to attempt to get Ellie Connors paroled from the state reform school for girls. Abner has kept pretty busy explaining Lum's trip to Ellie, who suspects that there is more to Lum's journey than she has been told. As we look in on the little community today, we find Ellie (or Mary as she's now called) in the store, Abner is just entering...