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When Samson reached the mill it was ten o'clock The er had seen to that The boy

replaced his exhausted ht, as he

drew near the cabin of the Widow Miller, he gave a long, lohippoorwill call, and proure rose up to greet hi there, silent, wide-eyed and terrified, nursing her knees

in locked fingers that pressed tightly into the flesh She had not

spoken She had hardly il

with a white face that was beginning to wear the drawn, heart-eating

anxiety of the mountain woman; the woman whose code demands that she

stand loyally to her clan's hatreds; the woa hiine a thousand terrors

--and wait

A rooster was crowing, and the moon had set Only the stars were left

"Sally," the boy reproved, "hit's ed out Why hain't you in bed?"

"I 'lowed ye'd come by hyar," she told him simply, "and I waited fer

ye I knohar ye had went," she added, "an' I was skeered"

"How did ye know?"

"I heered thet Tao

ter Hixon So, of course, I knowed hit would be you"