CHAPTER XV.
THE MAN IN HIDING.
Cautiously the Major approached the cabin, which seemed to have been built as a place for the berry pickers to assemble and pack their fruit.
It was constructed of rough boards and had a little window in the side nearest the dwelling house and a door on the opposite side.
Creeping near to the window the Major obtained a clear view of the interior.

Upon a dilapidated wicker settee, which had one end propped with a box, partially reclined the form of a man whose right arm was in splints and supported by a sling, while his head was covered with plasters and bandages.

The man's back was toward the window, but from his slender form and its graceful poise the Major imagined him young.
Old Nora held the left hand of this mysterious person in a warm clasp, bending now and then to press a kiss upon it, while Hucks busied himself opening the parcel he had brought and arranging various articles of food on a rickety stand at the head of the couch.

The old man's smile was more benevolent and cheery than ever, and his actions denoted that strange, suppressed eagerness the Major had marked when he had taken the money.
The three spoke little, and in tones so low that the spy outside the window failed to catch them.

Soon the injured man began to eat, feeding himself laboriously with his left hand.