An' Belllounds made it plain I was to take orders from him an' not from his son." "Thet'll make your job a million times easier," declared Lem, as if to make up for former hasty pessimism.

He led the way past some log cabins, and sheds with dirt roofs, and low, flat-topped barns, out across another brook where willow-trees were turning yellow.

Then the new cabin came into view.

It was small, with one door and one window, and a porch across the front.

It stood on a small elevation, near the swift brook, and overlooking the ranch-house perhaps a quarter of a mile below.