After you have seen it, keep away." The floor was cement, three of the walls heavy screening with mosquito wire inside, the roof slab shingled.

On the inner wall was a bookcase, below it a desk, at one side a gun cabinet, at the other a bath in a small alcove beside a closet.

The room contained two chairs like those of the veranda, and the bed was a low oak couch covered with a thick mattress of hemlock twigs, topped with sweet fern, on which the sun shone all day.

On a chair at the foot were spread some white sheets, a blanket, and an oilcloth.

The sun beat in, the wind drifted through, and one lying on the couch could see down the bright hill, and sweep the lake to the opposite bank without lifting the head.