Nate guessed Huldy Ann would think he'd managed pretty well.
"He set there for a long while, thinkin', and then he says he cal'lates he must have dozed off.

At any rate, next thing he knew he was settin' up straight in his chair, listenin'.

It seemed to him that he'd heard a sound in the kitchen underneath.
"He looked out of the window, and right away he noticed somethin'.

'Twas a beautiful, clear moonlight night, and the high board fence around the buildin's showed black against the white sand.

And in that white strip was a ten-foot white gape.