I want to have the place straight, so that those poor ladies may avoid seeing anything to recall the scene they have passed through.

Of course, you won't go into the room where they are now." Three or four of the settlers at once volunteered to set to work to dig a grave.
"Choose a place a bit away from the house," one of them said.

"The farther, the better; it will remind them of this affair, whenever they see it." While Reuben was arranging this point, the constable had come out and told Mr.Barker the ladies would be glad to see him.
"It's a terrible business," the settler said to Reuben, as he turned to go into the house.

"I feel downright afraid of facing them.

To think how bright and pretty they looked, when I rode over here ten days ago; and now there they are, broken hearted." He returned in a few minutes.
"How is Donald ?" was the general question.
"He is hard hit," the settler said, "just under the ribs on the right-hand side.