Now and then she heard the policeman talking in a friendly voice to Dick, who walked close beside them, and Dick's excited bark.

She was wondering how much further they had to go, when they drew up, and Huldah found herself being laid on a wooden bench in a room where two or three policemen were standing round a fire.
To her surprise, she was no longer afraid of them, they were too kind and gentle for that.

One of those standing by the fire, an elderly man, came over to where she lay.
"Well, young woman," he said, cheerfully, "and when did you have anything to eat last?
Day before yesterday, by the look of you." Huldah tried to remember.

"It wasn't quite so long ago as that," she said, feebly.

"I had some dinner--yesterday, I think.