She held up her hand with four fingers spread above it.
"Ayes," said Aunt Deel, "there are four perils." My aunt rose and went into the but'ry while I sat staring at the ragged old woman.

Her hair was white now and partly covered by a worn and faded bonnet.

Forbidding as she was I did not miss the sweetness in her smile and her blue eyes when she looked at me.

Aunt Deel came with a plate of doughnuts and bread and butter and head cheese and said in a voice full of pity: "Poor ol' Kate--ayes! Here's somethin' for ye--ayes!" She turned to, my uncle and said: "Peabody Baynes, what'll we do--I'd like to know--ayes! She can't rove all night." "I'll git some blankets an' make a bed for her, good 'nough for anybody, out in the hired man's room over the shed," said my uncle.
He brought the lantern--a little tower of perforated tin--and put a lighted candle inside of it.

Then he beckoned to the stranger, who followed him out of the front door with the plate of food in her hands.
"Well I declare! It's a long time since she went up this road--ayes!" said Aunt Deel, yawning as she resumed her chair.
"Who is ol' Kate ?" I asked.
"Oh, just a poor ol' crazy woman--wanders all 'round--ayes!" "What made her crazy ?" "Oh, I guess somebody misused and deceived her when she was young--ayes! It's an awful wicked thing to do.