16/30 A black-haired, black-browed man, with a pipe between his teeth, and one sinewy arm bared to the elbow. She supposed it to be a tramp, who had taken shelter there for the night; but finding to her dismay that the tramp stayed on, she had never overcome her fright from that hour to this. They caused securer bolts to be put on their doors--for fastenings in small country places are not much thought about, people around being proverbially honest. They also had their shutters altered. The shutters to the windows, back and front, had holes in them in the form of a heart, such as you may have sometimes noticed. |