The traveller tagged Leon and told him what a fine fellow he was, how smart he was, and to prove it, Leon boasted about everything he knew, and showed the man all over the farm.
I even saw them pass the Station in the orchard, and heard Leon brag how father had been an agent for the Governor; but of course he didn't really show him the place, and probably it would have made no difference if he had, for all the money must have been spent on Sally's wedding.

Of course father might have put some there he had got since, or that money might never have been his at all, but it seemed as if it would be, because it was on his land.
Sunday evening all of us attended church, but the traveller was too tired, so when Leon said he'd stay with him, father thought it was all right.

I could see no one wanted to leave the man alone in the house.
He said they'd go to bed early, and we came in quite late.

The lamp was turned low, the door unlocked, and everything in place.

Laddie went to bed without a candle, and said he'd undress and slip in easy so as not to waken them.
In the morning when he got up the traveller's bed hadn't been slept in, and neither had Leon's.