By and by the latter stopped her team in front of the homestead and fastened the reins to a post.
"Now," she said, "you sit on the veranda and wait for me.

It was Wilkinson's rig we saw, and I'll find him in." Wilkinson looked up from the table at which he was writing when Sadie entered the room.

He was, on the whole, a handsome man, but was rather fat, and his black eyes were unusually close together.

This perhaps accounted for the obliquity of his glance, which, some believed, conveyed a useful hint about his character.

He was neatly dressed in light, summer clothes, although the farmers generally wore brown overalls.