At the shanty he helped her down.

Ignorant, he saw not the tale of a bosom heaving, nor read correctly the story of the pink in the cheek.

He believed rather the import of a face turned away, and of features set in a mask of repose.

There had as yet been no word.
The claim shanty was indeed in some need of repair.

One corner of the roof had fallen in, carrying with it a portion of the sod wall that made the inclosure, and spilling a quantity of earth in the bed customarily occupied by Aunt Lucy when she "resided" here in company with her mistress in their innocent process of acquiring one hundred and sixty acres of land apiece by means of a double dwelling place.
Upon the opposite side, protected by a screen, Franklin caught sight of a corner of the other bed.