At intervals there were sounds round the house, as of stealthy feet, or of quick pattering feet, or of trailing garments--this was the wind busy among the drifting leaves.
The two men, who had finished the coffin by the light of a lantern, carried it into the house and set it up against the wall while they ate their evening meal.

Then they took it to a table in the next room to put the dead man in it.

The girl and the dog went with them.

They had cushioned the box with coarse sacking filled with fragrant pine tassels, but the girl took a thickly quilted cloth from her own bed and lined it more carefully.

They did not hinder her.
"We've made it a bit too big," said Saul; "that'll stop the shaking." The corpse, according to American custom, was dressed in its clothes--a suit of light grey homespun, such as is to be bought everywhere from French-Canadian weavers.