Then I went to every hole around the haystack, where the cattle had eaten; none were deep yet, like they would be later in the season, and all the way I begged of Leon to come out.
Once a rooster screamed, flew in my face and scared me good, but no Leon; so I tried the corn crib, the implement shed, and the wood house, climbing the ladder with the money still gripped in one hand.

Then I slipped in the front door, up the stairs, and searched the garret, even away back where I didn't like to very well.

At last I went to the dining-room, and I don't think either father or mother had moved, while Sabethany turned to stone looked good compared with them.

Seemed as if it would have been better if they'd cried, or scolded, or anything but just sit there as they did, when you could see by their moving once in a while that they were alive.

In the kitchen Candace and May finished the morning work, and both of them cried steadily.