The roosters announced the dawn before she slept.
Late the next morning old Joe Cumberland knocked again at her door.

He was beginning to fear that this illness might be serious.

Moreover, he had a definite purpose in rousing her.
"Yes ?" she called, after the second knock.
"Look out your window, honey, down to Morgan's place.

You remember I said I was goin' to clean up the landscape ?" The mention of Morgan's place cleared the sleep from Kate's mind and it brought back the horror of the night before.

Shivering she slipped from her bed and went to the window.