Do ye know where your father's corpse--is laid ?" "Yes, I know," she said.

"He didn't care anything about cemeteries, father didn't." He looked at her keenly, and there was a certain stern setting of his strong lower jaw.

His words were quick: "Tell on." "'Twas you that made me do it," said she, sullenly.
"Do what?
What did ye do ?" "I buried my father." "Did ye set Saul to do it ?" "No; what should I have to do asking a man like Saul ?" "Lassie, lassie! it's no for me to condemn ye, nor maybe for the dead either, for he was whiles a hard father to you, but I wonder your own woman's heart didn't misgive ye." Perhaps, for all he knew, it had misgiven her often, but she did not say so now.
"In the clearin's all round Turrifs they buried on their own lands," she said, still sullen.
"Ye buried him on his own land!" he exclaimed, the wonder of it growing upon him.

"When?
Where?
Out with it! Make a clean breast of it." "I buried him that night.

The coffin slipped easy enough out of the window and on the dry leaves when I dragged it.