To this he added a roll of rag carpet, the end of which hung from the tailboard, and a roll of pink calico temptingly displayed on the seat.

The mystification and curiosity of the young girl grew more intense at these proceedings.

It looked like the ordinary exhibition of a traveling peddler, but the gloomy and embattled appearance of the man himself scouted so peaceful and commonplace a suggestion.

Under the pretense of chasing away a marauding hen, she sallied out upon the waste near the wagon.

It then became evident that the traveler had seen her, and was not averse to her interest in his movements, although he had not changed his attitude of savage retrospection.