Summary

Caddie returns to school in time for Valentine’s Day. Tom encourages her to spend her silver dollar on valentines, but Caddie is not so frivolous. Instead, she brings six pennies she has saved and buys a few “penny comics” for friends and family. She learns Tom is working away in the back room of the store, sprouting potatoes in exchange for the nicest valentine in the store. Caddie can’t dream who it’s for, but she realizes Tom wants it to be a secret and she tells no one. Next day at school, the valentines are exchanged, but as the day wears on, the fancy valentine has still not appeared. After afternoon recess, though, the valentine appears anonymously on Katie Hyman’s desk. That gets Caddie to thinking — she does everything with Tom, yet here he is giving a fancy valentine to Katie...