A charming vision of fresh young loveliness, strong, erect, healthy, bright of eye and of cheek, she made as, after a furtive look up and down the saloon, she stepped from her door a very few minutes after the crash of that gong.

With much scuffling and bustling the passengers, most of them country people, were hurrying into places at the tables which now had their extension leaves and were covered with coarse white tablecloths and with dishes of nicked stoneware, white, indeed, but shabbily so.

But Susan's young eyes were not critical.

To her it all seemed fine, with the rich flavor of adventure.

A more experienced traveler might have been filled with gloomy foreboding by the quality of the odor from the cooking.