[The Octopus by Frank Norris]@TWC D-Link bookThe Octopus CHAPTER II 3/119
She imagined herself a belated traveller, a poor girl, an outcast, quenching her thirst at the wayside brook, her little packet of cresses doing duty for a bundle of clothes.
Night was coming on.
Perhaps it would storm.
She had nowhere to go.
She would apply at a hut for shelter. Abruptly, the temptation to dabble her feet in the creek presented itself to her.
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