He regarded it with a rueful smile when he had tried and failed to open it.
"Trouble ahead," he commented.

"It cost eight or nine dollars anyway, and now it's broken." Then he came to a rather big valise, which swung open and poured out part of its contents when he lifted it by the handle.

They seemed to consist of voluminous folds of delicate fabric and lace, and he was gazing at them and wondering how they were to be got back into the bag when he heard a voice behind him.
"Will you kindly put that down ?" it said.
Weston dropped the bag in his astonishment; and, swinging around suddenly, he saw Miss Stirling standing in the shadow of a great cedar.

He had been too busy during the journey up the river to pay much attention to her; but now it occurred to him that she was not only pretty but very much in harmony with her surroundings.

The simple, close-fitting gray dress which, though he did not know this, had cost a good many dollars, displayed a pretty and not over-slender figure, and fitted in with the neutral tinting of the towering fir trunks and the sunlit boulders, while the plain white hat with bent-down brim formed an appropriate setting for the delicately-colored face beneath it.