Once, when he had been looking at her for a long time, she suddenly raised her eyes and they met his fairly.

Both smiled, but he saw a blush mantle her cheeks.
At noon she rose and entered the cabin.

A little later she called to him, telling him that dinner was ready.

He washed from the tin basin that stood on the bench just outside the door, and entering sat at the table and ate heartily.
After dinner he did not see her again for a time, and becoming wearied of the chair he set out on a short excursion to the river.

When he returned she was seated on the porch and looked up at him with a demure smile.
"You will be quite active by to-morrow," she said.
"I ain't feelin' exactly lazy now," he returned, showing a surprising agility in reaching his chair.
When the sun began to swim low over the hills, he looked at her with a curiously grim smile.
"I reckon that rattler was fooled last night," he said.