So, lacking the clue, Cash only wondered and did not suspect.
What most troubled Cash was the fact that he had unwittingly caused all the trouble for Lovin Child.

He should not have tried to scrub the floor with the kid running loose all over the place.

As a slight token of his responsibility in the matter, he watched his chance when Bud was busy at the old cookstove, and tossed a rabbit fur across to Lovin Child to play with; a risky thing to do, since he did not know what were Lovin Child's little peculiarities in the way of receiving strange gifts.

But he was lucky.

Lovin Child was enraptured with the soft fur and rubbed it over his baby cheeks and cooed to it and kissed it, and said "Ee?
Ee ?" to Cash, which was reward enough.
There was a strained moment when Bud came over and discovered what it was he was having so much fun with.