It's a big cabin, high up on a cliff, and I could look out.

Then I had dogs and pets I had tamed, and books.

There was a spring inside, and food stored, and the men brought me fresh meat.

Once I was there one whole winter." It now required deliberation on Venters's part to persist in his unconcern and to keep at work.

He wanted to look at her, to volley questions at her.
"As long as you can remember--you've lived in Deception Pass ?" he went on.
"I've a dim memory of some other place, and women and children; but I can't make anything of it.